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A VETEB \ \" OF THE < lROSS ,J 



VETERANS 
OF THE CROSS 



By 
WILLIAM LUNSFORD, D. D. 

Corresponding Secretary, 
Relief and Annuity Board, Southern Baptist Convention 



Published by Authority of the Board 



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BAPTIST STANDARD PUBLISHING CO., 
DALLAS, TEXAS 

1921 



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OOPYIIOHT, 1921, 

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HtUMONO PRC9I 

W. •. CONKIY CUMHANY 
CHICAGO 









Dctricatct) 

TO THE 

BAPTIST VETERANS 

OF 

THE CROSS 



"A RIPER, MORE TRANSCENDENT YOUTH" 

Just sixty-two? Then trim thy light, 

And get thy jewels all reset; 
Tis past meridian, but still bright, 
And lacks some hours of sunset yet. 
At sixty-two 
Be strong and true, 
Scour off thy rust and shine anew. 

'Tis yet high day; thy staff resume. 
And fight fresh battles for the truth; 

And what ifl age bat youth's full bloom, 
A riper, more transcendent youth 1 

A Id 

b never old ; 
Btreams broad* r grow as downward rolled. 

At sixty-two life is begun; 

At seventy-three begin ones more; 
fly swiftly as you near the sun, 

And brighter shine at eighty-one. 

At ninety-live 

Should you arrive, 

Still wait on God, and work and thrive. 

Keep thy locks wet with morning dewj 

And freely let thy graces flow; 

For life w< 11 spent is <•■ i r new 
And years anointed younger grow. 
So work away 
Be young for aye, 
i sunset, breaking unto day. 

— 8( tecfc &* 



cox TE N TS 

l\u;i. 

I. Tin: HisTcKV Of THE MOVEMENT !) 

Origin and History of the Moverum! Dr. Allen Fort. 
Growing a New Institution — Dr. J. B. (iambrell. What 
Other Denominations Are Doing — Dr. William Hans- 
ford. 

H. Tin: Nature of the Movement 23 

The Denomination's Program — Dr. William Lnnsford. 
Unpaid Debt to the Minister — Secretary J. T. Hender- 
son. The Bonus for the Veteran Treacher — Dr. T. J. 
Van Xess. The ITero Fund — Selected. The Veteran 
Treacher's Claim — Dr. William Lnnsford. 

TIT. The Object of the Movement 43 

The Forgotten Man — Dr. H. A. Porter. The Preacher 
and His Earthly Outlook— Dr. C. C. Brown. Our Bap- 
tist Veterans of the Cross— Dr. J. B. Cranfill. Shall 
the Old Minister Be Shot?— Dr. Ryland Knight. An 
Old Preacher's Soliloquy — Dr. C. C. Brown. 

IV. The Reasons for the Movement 73 

Why a Dependable Pension? — Dr. J. W. Porter. Rea- 
sons Why We Shall Win— Dr. J. J. Hurt. Not Charity 
But Justice— Dr. F. C. McConnell. Debtor to the 
Preachers— Dr. M. E. Dodd. Wliy the Minister Should 
Insure His Life — Dr. E. Y. Mullins. Reasons for Suc- 
cess — Dr. II. L. Winburn. Some Reasons — Dr. II. EL 
Helping Those That Helped — Miss Elizabeth 
X. Briggs. The Retired Minister and the Honor of the 
irchee — Dr. J. M. Dawson. The Pastor Doing 
Business on the Side — Dr. L. R. Scarborough. The 
Preacher's Gtethsemane — Dr. A. B. Bond. Not Charity, 

But Debt— Dr. W. W. Landrum. The Mantle of Our 
Fathers— Dr. E. C. Routh. 
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6 CONTENTS 

PAGE 

V. The Bt-Products of the Movement 120 

Pastoral Support and Baptist Progress — Dr. Victor I. 
Masters. What Constitutes an Adequate Salary? — 
'Sir. J. C. Moss. Saving versus Efficiency — Dr. J. W. 
Van Cleve. Helping the Young Preacher — Dr. B. H. 
D.Ment. Brightening the Missionary's Outlook — Prof. 
G. S. Dobbins. Entering the Baptist Ministry— Dr. F. 
S. Groner. The Preacher's Family — Dr. J. F. Love. 

VI. Tin: flLORY of tiik Movkmknt 1(17 

Give Them the Flowers Right Now- Dr. Geo. W, Me- 
Daniel. New Things for the Old Preachers — Dr. John 
K. White. The - Preacher— Dr. J. R Tid- 

well. Freedom from Itel — Dr. Knfus YV. Weaver. 

The Aged Preacher*! Laet Mitt — Dr. F, K. ICeComelL 
VTX Helping ox the Movement L89 

How P| in Help on the Work — William Duns- 

ford. Wills. I 



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F It E W R D 

THE aim Of this hook is to bring in B nrw and better 
clay for the denomination we Love and the men we 

honor. It contains in full, or in part, articles and adore* 
by men to whom the denomination has committed the 
cause of her disabled and worn-out veterans; also contribu- 
tions by some of our well-known laymen, pastors, and other 
leaders of our denominational work, who have determined 
that our retired ministry shall share in the results of a 
harmonious and complete plan for the care and relief of 
men who have willingly and self-sacrificingly served our 
common Master, by teaching and exemplifying those truths 
for which our denomination stands. 

The author is under special obligations to those who 
have been willing to pause sufficiently long in their work 
to make a contribution to the cause herein set forth. Espe- 
cially are we indebted to Rev. Joseph B. Hingeley, D. D., 
of the Northern Methodist Church ; Rev. H. Foulkes, D. D., 
of the Northern Presbyterian Church ; Rev. Henry Sweets, 
D. D., of the Presbyterian Church in the United States; 
Rev, Win. Sylvester Holt, D. D., LL.D., of the Northern 
Presbyterian Church; and Rev. E. T. Tomlinson, D. D., of 
the Northern Baptist Board, for kindnesses and courtesies 
in the preparation of this volume. 

We are especially indebted to the Sunday School Board, 
by whose generous gift, three years ago, the work of the 
Relief and Annuity Board had its beginning; to Mr. John 
D. Rockefeller, whose kindly donations have enabled the 
board to make progress beyond its highest expectations; 
and to Editor E. C. Routh, D. D., of the Baptist Standard 
Publishing Company, who has made the generous gift of 
his time and talents to the every-day affairs of the board, 
and has supervised the publication of this volume. 

William Lunsford, 

Corresponding Secretary, 

Dallas, Texas. 
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JOIIX DAVISON ROCKEPELLEB 



John Davison Rockefeller was born July 8, L839, at Richford, 
N. Y. His family removed to Cleveland, Ohio, where at the age of 
fifteen years he publicly united with the Baptist Church, thus reaffirm- 
ing his belief in the religious doctrines in which he had been brought 
up. Prom childhood he had been taught to work hard, to save, and 

give all 1m- could t<> church and charity. Hf was made a trustee 
in Mi.- Erie street Baptist Church of Cleveland at the age of seventeen, 
and Tint long after that he attacked his first 1 » i l_t financial problem — 
to pay off a mortgage of $2,000 on the church building. lie nol only 
eely <»t* his scanty wages, but begged eagerly of each member 
of the congregation until the money was raised and the church saved 
from foreclosure. 

Prom the careful record the boy kept of income and outgo it 

appears that When lie was little past sixteen am! earning less than 



$4.00 a week, he was already giving generously in church causes. 
Witness such items as: "Missionary cause, November 25th, L5cj 
Mite Society, 75cj ministerial student, 10c: Sabbath school, 5cj 
present to Sabbath school superintendent) 25c 

As his means increased Mr. Rockefeller continued to give in the 
same relative proportion, which of course resulted in donations of 
large amount. So far as one can judge from hifi history, he has been 
constantly animated by the sense of stewardship, of responsibility 
for the best use of the fortune he ace, miniated. He seems to have 
had two aims: (1) To gel aU the gain he honestly could; and (2) 
to use that gain for the welfare of ids fellow men. The history of 
the Dniversity of Chicago affords an illustration oi the infinite pains 
he devotes to planning and developing a worthy enterprise. The first 
gift toward this was 1100,000 to hem found a Baptist college, and 
this after some yean of growth culminated in donations to the Uni- 
versity "f ( bicago aggregating more than $33,000,000. 

Mr. Rockefeller married, in L864, at Cleveland, Laura Cell 

daughter of Harvey Bpelman. Their children were: Bessie, who was 

married to Prof. Charles A. Strong in 1889, and died in 1906: Alta, 

who married K. • I'rent'n-e; Edith, wife of Harold Fowlei 

sfeCormick; and John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. Mr. Rockefeller and 
associates founded, in i s 7", the standard oil Company al Cleveland. 
lie and his family removed in i vv '> to New fork, which has been 
Mr. Rockefeller's homi see, though he BtiU keeps bis member- 

ship in his old church, which hm^ a^o he-ame the Kuclid Avenue 

I '.apt ierl ( Ihurch of ( lei eland. 

sin.-c Mr. Rockefeller's retirement from business, in 1895, he has 
devoted as much planning and toil to the work of giving ;i> he ever 
devoted t<> the work of getting. Ee s eem s to have tried to give in 
such a way si to encouragi i codperate in doing good and 

to make sure that every dollar Contributed shall do its full work 

without waste. Be has scientifically to eliminate disease, 

which make- men wretched, and ignorance, which holds them in 
poverty. Thus * gifts to all unount to more than 

$500,000,000, and he is -till industriously giving. 

Mr. Rockefeller has proven himself I friend of the veterans 

of the Cross. At various times be has made contributions ag 
gating some $5,000,000 to the Old Ministers' Fund of the Northern 
Baptist Convention. Although the Relief and Annuity Board of the 
Southern Baptisl Convention is comparatively s new institution, he 
has manifested s deep and sympathetic interest in its program and 
has already given $300,000 to the work undertaken by this board. 



Till: ORIGIN AND SIGNIFICANCE OF Till 
MOVEMENT 

Origin and History of the Movement. 
Dr. Allen Fort. 

Growing a New Institution 
Dr. J. B. Gainbrcll. 

What Other Denominations Aiie Doing. 
Dr. William Lunsiord. 



WHY DO WE WAIT? 

Why do we wait till ears are deaf 

Before we speak our kindly word, 
And only utter loving praise 

When not a whisper can be heard? 

Why do we wait till hands are laid 

Close-folded, pulseless, ere we place 
Within them roses sweet and rare, 

And lilies in their flawless grace 1 

Why do we wait till eyes are Bealed 

To light and love in death's deep t ranee- 
Pear wistful eyes— before we bend 
Above them with impassioned glancef 

Why do we wait till hearts are still 
To tell them all the love that's OUTS, 

And give them such late meed of praise, 
And lay above them fragrant Bowers t 

How oft do we, careless, wail till life's 

Sweet opportunities are pa-t. 

And break our "alabaster box 
Of ointment" at the very last I 

let us heed the living friend 

Who walks with us life's common ways, 
Watching our eye- for look of h>ve. 
And hungering for a word of prai 

—Britieh Weekly, 



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DR. ALLEN FOKT 

Dr, Allen Fori was born June 7. L882j a1 Americus, Ga. B - 
father was Allen Fori and mother Floyd Hollis. He received his 
education in the high Bchool of his native town, and from there wenl 
to the I ni\ ersil i I e career to enter 

the practice of b . ther, and in this profession he 

made pr< thai forei brilliant political future for him. 

llf yielded to the call to preach and was ordained in the Firsl Bap 

Church of Americus, G a., December 6, L906. Heal once entered 
the pastorate and accepted the call of the Dublin, Ga., church. Fol- 
lowing this pastorate he wenl to the Tabernacle Church of Chat* 
tanooga, Tenn. In January, 1914, he came to the Firsl Church of 
Nashville. In all of hia | work was marked by splendid 

Increases In church membership that to his evangelistic sifts. 

Doctor Fort married Misa Maude Hicks of Spartanburg, 9 
She died in L920 and _■'. L921, he followed her 

to the heavenly home. They bad one son, Allen Fort, .Jr. 

He was .*» member oi ' denominational boards where his 

com welcomed. Mercer University, the University of 

irgia, and Union University conferred upon him the degree of D. D. 



I 

THE ORIGIN AND BISTORT OF THE MOVEMENT 

Da Allkx Fort 
Pastor First Baptist Church, Nashville, Tenn.* 

IT was at a session of the Nashville Baptist Pastors' 
Conference, on a Monday morning in the autumn of 

1916, that the present movement among Southern Bap- 
tists for Ministerial Relief and Annuities was started. 

Southern Baptists had done something for the broken- 
down and aged ministers, but the efforts to provide for 
these worthy servants of the Master had been utterly 
inadequate. Here and there in our Southland noble men 
had spoken of the need of better care for these heroes; 
and in practically all the states efforts were made to meet 
this need. In a few of the states work was done that at 
least was suggestive of the denomination's appreciation of 
the work of its ministers. But at the best the great task 
was neglected. 

At the session of the Nashville Conference, on that 
particular morning, there was no special business before 
the body. The usual reports of the pastors had been given, 
and a motion to adjourn was about to be made. Dr. Wil- 
liam Lunsford, pastor of the Edgefield Church, Nashville, 
asked if he might speak a w T ord on a matter of general 
interest. The permission was readily granted, and Doctor 
Lunsford, who was the senior pastor in point of years of 
service in the city, addressed his brother pastors on a sub- 
ject which had been in his heart. 

Doctor Lunsford spoke of the other denominations that 
were undertaking to raise large sums of money for the 

* After this article was prepared for publication, Dr. Fort fell on sleep. 
He was an unfailing friend of the Veterans of the Cross. 

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13 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

aged and incapacitated ministers; then he called attention 
to the plans in force in Tennessee and in the other states 
of the South. He said that the men who had dedicated 
their lives to the work of the ministry until they became 
old and feeble were entitled to the love and care of their 
brethren. Attention was called, too, to the meager salaries 
received by the ministers; also to the fact that the very 
nature of the minister's work made it impossible for him 
to provide for the period of advancing years and disabling 
infirmities. The nation, it was pointed out, cared for its 
soldiers and sailors. Great industrial concerns were pen- 
sioning their worn-out employee The minister was entitled 
to the same recognition that the soldier received at the 
hands of his government. 'Hie denomination should do for 
him what the new social conscience was forcing upon all 
employers of labor. He spoke of the fad thai the churches 
had created this conscience in both the government and 
the industrial world. Then he said that we were not prac- 
ticing what we preached, when h came to the treatment 
of those who had given themselves for the service of the 
Master. 

Doctor Lunsford spoke with great feeling and greatly 
stirred the hearts of those present. When he had finished 
several short talks were made by the pastors present, and 
they were a unit in the belief that the words of the chief 
speaker ought to be heeded. 

Several members of the Nashville Pastors' Conference^ 
along with Doctor Lunsford, were members of the Sunday 
School Board. The board was at this time without a 
secretary, Doctor Frost having died a short while before 
this discussion on ministerial relief. Dr. 1. J. Van N 
was acting corresponding secretary of the board (he was 
made secretary at the New Orleans ( lonvention, May, 1017), 
and he, too, had been giving serious consideration to the 
need of a larger and more adequate plan for the work of 
ministerial relief. Several members of the Sunday School 



HISTORY OF THE MOVEMENT 13 

Board, ministers and Layman, had been thinking along this 
same line. The matter was mentioned informally al the 
nexl board meeting, and was discussed by fin* members of 
the hoard as thqy met one another and talked of the affairs 
of the denomination. Acting Secretary Van Ness, in his 

ommendations to the board al the January, 1917, meet- 
ing, recommended that the board se1 apart $75,000 to 
start s fund for the purpose of ministerial relief, and that 
Baid sum be reported to the convention. On motion of the 
writer the amount was changed from $75,000 to $100,000; 
the recommendation as amended was unanimously and 
enthusiastically passed by the hoard. The action of the 
board is set forth in its annual report to the convention 
at New Orleans as follows: 

"At the January meeting the board voted to request 
the Southern Baptist Convention, at its coming session, 
to consider the appointment of a commission to examine 
the various plans now being operated for ministerial relief 
in the various states, and, pending the submission of this 
recommendation to the convention and the report of such 
a commission if appointed, the board set aside the sum of 
$100,000 to be held intact as a contribution to such a fund 
when established. The board has no special plan for ad- 
vancing this work, nor is its gift connected with any other 
movement of this kind. When the matter was first sug- 
gested, we had no information of any other action along 
similar lines. We have been glad to hear that various 
state conventions have taken action and will present 
memorials at this meeting. 

"The Sunday School Board, therefore, requests the 
appointment at the present session of a special committee 
to whom this proposition shall be referred, and to whom 
the convention, if it deems best> may refer all similar 
requests from other sources, the said committee to report 
to this session as to the whole matter. The entire $100,000 
for this fund is now in hand and is included with the 



14 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

invested funds of the board. It will be held subject to 
the decision of the convention." 

A committee was appointed by the president of the 
convention to consider this recommendation. The follow- 
ing committee was named: William Lunsford, M. D. Jef- 
fries, E. W. Stephens, W, II. Morgan, II. F. Vermillion, 
W« X. Jones, and D. Y. Bagby. This committee met and 
brought in their report, suggesting "that the convention 
approve the action of the Sunday School Board in setting 
apart this amount of money for this worthy cause.'' 
Attention was then called to the need of such a fund, and 
many strong points were Bel forth in the report showing 
why this neglect of the denomination should he speedily 
remedied. The report also recommended that "a commis- 
sion of nine members or more be appointed by the presi- 
dent of the convention to work out a JUSl and Suitable 
pension plan during the ensuing year whereby the funds 
shall be protect* d from diminution or loBB, and so safe- 
guarded that only the meritorious can secure the benefits 

of them; that the members ol this commission shall reside 
in easy access of Nashville, Tenn., so as to be in close touch 
with the Sunday School Board; that the Sunday School 
Board shall he the custodian of this fund until otherwise 
directed by the Southern Baptisl Convention, holding said 
money subjecl to such conditions and restrictions as the 
commission of nine or more shall direct/' This commission 
of nine was gives liberal power and authority to cany 
out the purpose of the convention. 

This report was adopted and President Gambrell ap- 
pointed the following B8 the commission: Allen Port, J. P. 
Brownlow, 0. C. Barton, Howard E. Frost, AV. W. Lan- 

drum, William Lunsford, I. J. Van Ne88, Austin Crouch, 
A. C. Cree, T. B. Ray, A. B. Hill, and B. W. Stephens. 

It will be seen that the president appointed twelve liiciii- 

bera on this commission, thus accepting the recommendation 
that more than nine might he appointed if thought wise. 



HISTORY OF THE MOVEMENT LS 

The new commission met in the city of Nashville on 
the lith day of June, 1917, and organized by electing 
Allen Fori chairman and William Lunsford secretary. 
On account oi his study of the question and his deep in- 
terest in the work, the responsibility of collecting facts 
and material with a view to formulating a definite program 

i given to the secretary. Ho immediately began his 
task; and visited thfe headquarters of the various de- 
nominations of the country engaged in ministerial relief. 
Conferences were held with the different secretaries and 
insurance men, and others interested in annuities and 
relief work were consulted. It ought to be said in passing 
that the cooperation given the commission by these men 
of other denominations and in the insurance world was 
very graciously given and proved of great value. 

Many sessions of the commission were held. The mem- 
bers took their work very seriously and gave freely of their 
time. The discussions were most interesting and helpful. 
Every point was gone into, and every recommendation 
thoroughly discussed before passed. The men on the com- 
mission were men of experience in denominational affairs 
who had an intense interest in the success of the movement 
entrusted to them. The leadership of the secretary. Doctor 
Lunsford, and the cooperation of the members of the com- 
mission resulted in the comprehensive report of the 
commission which was made to the convention at Hot 
Springs in 1918. 

Perhaps the most important phase of this report, so 
far as the future of the w r ork was concerned, was the 
recommendation that a Board of Ministerial Belief and 
Annuities be established This recommendation was sug- 
gested by Dr. I. J. Van Ness. He realized the limitations 
of a commission and felt that a board should be organized 
to continue the work permanently. The only change in the 

report of the commission made by the convention was that 

the headquarters of the board be Dallas, Texas, instead of 

Birmingham as recommended in the report. 



16 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

The convention through its nominating committee 
elected the first board, and to such board was entrusted 
the great work which has been so capably directed. 

One cannot but be impressed that God has been moving 
in this great movement as lie does in all movements that 
are really great. The work which had been done by local 
churches, associations and various states had shown the 
need of such a task. It also revealed the lack of a program 
large enough to reach all our slates. The suggestion of 
Doctor Lunsford, now the secretary of the board, together 
with the impressions in the hearts of many of the Sunday 
School Board and the sympathy and vision of its acting 

corresponding secretary, I rty approval of the plan 

by the convention at New Orleans, the recommendation of 

the com i thai a board be established, the selection of 

Doctor Lunsford ;,^ -retary and the launching of the 

at 75 Million Campaign which will provide at least ;i 

Sufficient fond to begin the relief and annuity feature — 

all indicated divine favor and approval. 

Let us all rejoice thai a new day is at hand fni'tlie men 

and the wofcnen who have given of their talents in the 
Blaster's work, and h-t us rejoice that our denominational 

con Stirred that we will never a.irain fail to 

provide for them in the days of disability (,r oh ' a c c - 



GROWING A NEW [NSTITUTION 

Di .1. B. Gamb] 
President Southern Baptist Convention 

Till-] Southern Baptisl Convention has constituted a new 
board designed to care for the financial needs of the 
aged, infirm and dependent ministers. It was a very 

needed -lop. It OUght to have been taken earlier. The 
convention never moved in any matter with greater eir- 




JAMES BBUTON GAMBRELL 



Dr. James Bruton Gambrell, son of Joel Bruton and Jane Elvira 
Gambrell, was born in Anderson, South Carolina, August 21, 1841, 
The next year his parents moved to Mississippi, where lie grew up 
on the farm ami attended the country schools. 

[n his twentieth year he entered the Confederate Army, and 

served in the Army of Virginia twenty-eight months, nearly all of 

the time I for Gen. Robert E. Loo, A. 1\ Hill and* others. 

He distinguished himself by his daring exploits. On one of his 

[peditions he met Miss Mary T. Corbell, Nansemond 

Qty, Virginia, and a year later, January 13, L864, he found his 

way through the Federal lines to her home and they were married at 
midnight. 

Al tlif Cl08€ of the war he returned to the old home in Missis 

BippL Jit* began preaching in 1867 in the church where he spent 
his boyhood days, Il<- was ordained by the Cherry Creek Church, 
Pontotoc County, Mississippi. Ho was also pastor of churches at 
Westpoint and Oxford* While at Oxford he took a course in the 
University of Mississippi After leaving here he became pastor at 
Clinton, Mississippi, where Mississippi College and Billman College 
were located. Ho was elected the editor of the Baptist Record, the 
state denominational paper of Mississippi, which position he held 
for fifteen years. Two yean «>t' 'hat time he served as secretary of 
the Mississippi Baptist Convention. Ho was also president tor one 
year of the American Baptist Ed cation Society. 

Later ho was elected president <»i' Mercer University, Macon, 
irgia. in i s !»7 ho was do, -tod corresponding secretary of the 
Baptist General Convention of Texas and tinder his administration 
the Baptists ot* Texas made si growth in missionary, 

benevolent and educational life, in 1910 he resigned this position 
to become editor of the Baptist standard. In L915 ho accepted for 
tin' second time the si ; i|» of the Convention. At the end of 

three years he asked to be released from the exacting duties of this 
office and was elected to till the chair of Christian Ethics and 
Ec Lesiologj in the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 
Port Worth. 

Doctor Gambrell was elected president ot' the Southern Baptist 
Convention in L917. At the Last meeting ot' the Convention, hold in 
Washington City, l». ( '.. May, L920, the precedent of many years was 
broken and Doctor <;:uni»roii was elected for the fourth time as presi 
dent of the Convention, At this meeting also Doctor Gambrell and 
Dr. B. Y. Mullins, president of the Southern Baptist Theological 

inary ot' Louisville, .d to visit the Baptists 

throughout Europe to bear fraternal greetings and make .•» survey of 
the needs ot' the various countries* They visited practically all coun- 
tries in Europe exc< ia. Since the y' urn from this trip 
Doctor Gambrell has responded to calls from many points in Texas 
and other states to speak on present day needs, conditions, and 
opportunities in Europe. 



HISTORY OF THE MOVEMENT 17 

eumspection. All the working principles of ih< i new board 
had been carefully considered in the light of the actual 

workings of like organizations by other people. This Q6W 

institution Btarts reasonably clear of all doubl as to its 
practicability. We have done well to make this beginning; 
but I have an earnest word to the friends of our old 
and their dependent ones concerning the impor- 
tas jrowing the new interest. I would put strong 

em] 'ii the word "growing." Things of this sort are 

not made like CUt flowers, all in a day. The things that 
abide are the things that grow. The great trees of the 
forest have been grown. Our government from a weak 
ginnin g has grown to its present strength. The other 
boards of the Southern Baptist Convention have been 

>wn through decades. Everything stable and highly 
1 in society is grown. 

So I put the emphasis on growing our new Board of 
Ministerial Relief and Annuities. It will have to be grown 
by the diffusion of intelligence. That is the way every- 
thing else grows among Baptists. And as this is a new 
enterprise, if we wish to grow it healthily we must put 
our minds on the very vital matter of making the people 
acquainted with it. That is a large undertaking. How 
little many of our people really know about any of our 
work. Even church members of great intelligence in other 
matters are distressingly ignorant about the things that 
belong to the Kingdom. 

Now let us get it settled in our minds that we are to 
grow this great benevolent institution and grow it by in- 
telligence. People will not be interested in things they 
know nothing about ; and where people are to put money 
they mUSl have definite information. I will, therefore, be 
permitted to say that the leaders of the denomination who 
are to be counted on to give information ought to take the 
pains to get accurate information about this new work. 
The secretary of the new board will send to anybody 



18 YETEEAXS OF THE CEOSS 

literature which will make it plain. It will no doubt be 
discussed at every session of the Southern Baptist Con- 
vention. In due time it will be discussed in all the state 
conventions. Then it will be discussed in the associations. 
The most important thing connected with the whole enter- 
prise now is that there shall be all over the territory of 
the Southern Baptist Convention men who will be able to 
make this new business plain. 1 say frankly that the most 
immediate necessity is not a large enrollment of bene- 
ficiaries. The present necessity is a large measure of 
intelligence about the work. 

1 want to emphasize this and remind my fellow workers 
everywhere that by the nature of things nobody knows 
anything that he does not learn. Therefore, some time 
must be given to becoming wise about this enterprise. 

Now h't me spread my remarks a little. This is a 
Southern Baptist Convention enterprise. It not only lias 
a good financial foundation to Btarl on, but it has all the 
moral strength of the Southern Baptist Convention back 
of it. That is assuring. Nobody who looks into the matter 
will need to talk hesitatingly aboul it. It always hurts 
a new enterprise to talk doubtfully about it, or any enter- 
prise, as to that. I believe this enterprise is Bafer than any 

hunk in the country, because banks have hern known to 

fail; but an enterprise with the Southern Baptist Conven- 
tion hack of it will not fail. It is good that we ean talk 

thus with entire confidence and good conscience. 

II.to is a stimulating thought as we go about the 
cultural process to make this work grow. It is a kind of 
benevolence that will appeal to the hearts of the people, 
and it falls in wdl with the times we are in now. Every- 
body is Baying a good word for the soldiers and everybody 

feels that if a .soldier became disabled overseas it would be 
ndalous not to look after his welfare. That makes an 
atmosphere for this new work. 

The papers can help to cultivate this new enterprise; 



E18T0RY OF THE MOVEMENT 19 

and they will, I bid pretty well acquainted with th< 
editors in the Southern Baptist Convention. They are a 
well balanced, fine group of men. Nol one of then) now 
lias a personal Cad to exploit. They are in for the King- 
dom, and they want to help every good thing. They will 

help this and make it gTOW. 

Our now board is like a tree. It is now small; but if 
it is cultivated and Watered, some day it will he a giant 
tree. It will bear fruit to gladden the hearts of mult it n 
of men and women who have put their all into the work 
of the Kingdom. It is a thing that everyone of us ought 
to take a turn at — that of cultivating this tree. 



WHAT OTHER DENOMINATIONS ARE DOING 
Dr. Wii. Luxsford, Corresponding' Secretary 

"TjoCTOR ANGEW of the Presbyterian Church was 
■■--' almost accurately truthful, as well as brilliant and 
witty, when he said that the clergy are idolized at 30, 
criticized at 40; ostracized at 50; Oslerized at 60, ami 
canonized at 70. Such a pithy sketch of a minister's career 
deserves a high place in American epigrams. 

Episcopalians 

A new day, however, has come to all the denominations 
in the matter of taking care of their indigent ministers. 
The Episcopalians began as far back as 1761), and have a 
Splendid <yst.Mii of general relief and annuities. They have 
a fund known as u The Fund for Automatic Pensions at 
Sixty-four." This fund is comparatively new, but has 
already an endowment of several millions, with a pension 
automatically accruing to every minister at the aire of 
sixty-four. Other millions are to bo added as the final goal 
fixed for the permanent endowment of this fund. 



20 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

Presbyterians 

For nearly two centuries the Presbyterian Church, 
North, has given attention to this fundamental cause. 
They have a relief department which was organized to 
give gracious relief to those who in their service have come 
to need. They have also a SOStentation department which 
corresponds to our annuity fund, which was organized in 
1909, embodying the contributory pension idea. Those 
who 1 •• ■! ' ' m ur to this fund pay quarterly, semi-annually or 
annually. The maximum benefits of this fund are $500 
8 year, during lifetime, for every man who has readied the 
age of seventy and who has w rved the Presbyterian Church 
thirty full years. This sostentation fund has been stand- 
ing at maximum for the pasl year or two. They have 

an invested fund i al million dollars, and are under- 

taking to raise some twelve or fifteen minimis to complete 

their present endowment 

Methodist k i to «pal 

The North* i-ii Bfethodisl Church has a plan involving 

both genera] relief and pensions. They have invested 
already more than twelve million dollars with an ultimate 

goal of twenty-live million. 

Methodist Episcopal, South 

This branch of the great Bfethodisl denomination has 

largely the same plan for bringing aid and comfort to 

their superannuated ministry. They began more than a 

hundred years ago, and every minister wh'> r the 

age of retirement has a fixed pension awaiting him. 

Southern Methodists, with headquarters at St. Louis, 

are now raising an endowment of ten million dollars, 



HISTORY OF THE MOVEMENT 81 

X iRTHBRN B LPTI8T I 'ONVENTION 

Northern Baptists, jusl a tew years ago, undertook the 
problem of ministerial relief in a greal way. They haye 

.it is known as the Ministers* and Missionaries* Benefit 
B ird. They have r •- ntly added to their General Belief 

partment an annuity and pension phase of work. This 

board has now some six millions of invested funds, with 

plans to raise the same in the next few years to twelve or 

en million dollars. 

COXGREGATIONAUSTS 

The Congregationalism have a great church program 

for ministerial relief. The board of the church has already 

gathered a fund of more than five million. They have also 
a Relief and an Annuity Department. The object of the 
annuity fund is to provide, at the age of seventy-live or 
niy, an annuity of $500 for the remainder of the 
minister's life, or three-fifths of this sum for his widow. 
The Congregationalists are at present engaged in adding 
Several millions to their present endowment. 

The annuity fund among all the denominations pro- 
vides a disability annuity in case the minister is totally 
disabled before reaching the annuity age; also a provision 
for the minor children until they become of age. Annuity 
provisions in the denominations are the same to this extent : 
Those who become members of the Annuity Funds make 
annual payments of premiums, which, according to 

oarial estimates, will yield one-fifth of the amount of 
old age pensions. This is true of all the denominations, 
with the possible exception, so tar as I know, of Northern 
Baptists, who have recently worked out a system by which 
the pension is materially increased, by the minister paying 
a fixed per cent of his salary. 

The movement is widespread. The Disciples North and 



22 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

South, German Baptists and Lutherans, are all engaged in 
raising large sums for old preachers when they come to the 
ages of retirement. 

Thus it will be seen that the movement for the relief of 
the retired minister is becoming world-wide. This move- 
ment, however, has just begun to touch Southern Baptists. 
At this very hour we are embarrassingly in the rear. Hav- 
ing already began, however, we shall go on to accomplish 
great tilings in the future. 

Two years ago the Protestant denominations in this 
country had in their treasuries thirty-three million dollars 
for preachers' pensions; today they are engaged in a cam- 
paign which will bring the amount up to seventy-live 
million w more. 



II 

NATURE OP THE MOVEMENT 

The Denomination's Program. 
Dr. William Lunsford. 

Unpaid Debt to the Minister. 
Secretary J. T. Henderson. 

The Bonus for the Veteran Preaciieu. 
Dr. I. J. Van Ness. 

The Hero Fund. 

Selected. 

The Veteran Preacher's Claim. 
Dr. William Lunsford. 



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THE DAY AND Till: WORK 

To cadi man is given a day and his work Tor the day; 
And once, and no more, lie is given to travel this way. 
And woe it' he Dies from the task, whatever the odds; 

For the appointed to him on the scroll of the :'au\^. 

There is a work when only Ids hands ean avail; 

And BO, il* he falter-, a chord in the mn.-ic will Jail. 

lie may laugh t<> I .ay lie for an hour in the sun; 

Bat he dare nol ti.l the labor appointed is done. 

T«> each man is given a marble t" carve for the wall; 
A thai is needed to heighten the beauty of all; 

il a grace ; 

And only his hands have the cunning t" put it in place. 
. the task that is given to each man, no other ean do; 

Bo tie errand is waiting; it has waited through a i you* 

And now you appear; and the hushed ones are turning their j 

T.i a e what yo i d<> with your chance in the chamber of day-. 

—Edwin Murk ham. 



U 




WILLIAM LUNSFOBD 



William Lunsford, born in Roanoke County, Virginia, about the 
time of the breaking out of the Civil War. Fathers name Charles 
Lunsford and mother's name Julia Ann Preston, both of Virginia. 

Education was never continuous but in brief Bpots. Attended the 
public Bchools oi" Virginia, Vinton Academy, the University of Vir- 
ginia and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Took the 

re law com-.' of the University of Virginia and in this way pre- 
pared for the bar. The practice of tin 4 law was no: pleasant, and, 
loving religious work, in- Boon found himself drifting toward the 
mini-try. Began preaching in 1894. 

Pastorates have been the Jefferson Street church of Roanoke, 

giniaj the P . *i-t Church of Howling Green, Kentucky; 

the ; rch of Waco, Texas: the First Baptist church 

of Asheville, North Carolina; and the Edgefield Baptist Church of 
Nashville, Tenn< — e. Th i of D. l >. was conferred by the 

Wake Foresl l ollege in L905. During ten years with the Edgefield 
Baptist Church of Nashville, Tern a good bit of writing 

I'm- the Sunday School l ontributing articles to all of her 

periodicals at various tim< r the death of Doctor Frost, edited 

the Sunday School Lessons until Doctor Dargan took up the work. In 
the meantime finished Doctor Bell's commentary on Philippians, he 
having died in the midst of the work. For eighteen months fur- 
aished a weekly article for Baptist Boys and Girls on the general 
topic "Worth While Talk- for Worth While Boys and Girls," in 
June, 1917, was made secretary of tin' Commission of Twelve ap- 
pointed by the 8< tisrl Convention to work out a plan fof 

ministerial relief. Spent most of that summer in the North anions 
expnts and Of other I Idiom inat ional boards. A plan 

which he brought a- a special report to the Commission of Twelve 
was adopted ami afterwards adopted by the convention. In July, 
L918, was made corresponding secretary of the Belief ami Annuity 
Board. 



II 

Tin: DENOMINATION'S PROGRAM 
Dk, William Lunsfobd 

THHE year 1918 will mark an epoch in the history of 

-*- Soin horn Baptists. The launching of the Relief and 
Annuity Board meant a new day, the dawn of a new era, 
for our Southern Baptist ministry. One does not have to 
be a prophet to see this. I speak in no uncertain terms. 
We are engaged in a big business today; we are talking in 
dollars and cents, because in that way we can easily and 
conveniently express ourselves. 

Back of our talk is a great overmastering idea — the rec- 
Ognition on the part of our churches of their responsibility 
to the ministry. Just as the attitude in business toward 
the worker has resulted in a change of industrial condi- 
tions with improved provisions for the man who has grown 
old at his task, so the new attitude of our churches toward 
the worn-out ministers will bring new conditions that will 
affect the present ministry and those who are to come 
after. 

Not that so much has already been accomplished, but it 
means a new beginning and a great purpose to go on and 
on. The birth of the Relief and Annuity Board was not a 

olution; it was more than that, It was something bet- 
ter. A revolution often reacts and leaves a situation worse 
than the one which created it. The Relief and Annuity 
Board is the product of an evolution, a change in the senti- 
ment of the people from the thought of charity to that of 
justice and gratitude in dealing with the retired minister. 

Whatever softens prejudice, stimulates honor, or creates 

apathy, will strengthen the cause of justice. These old 
men in their disabling infirmities have uttered no com- 

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26 VETERANS OF THE CEOSS 

plaint, but their abject poverty and pitiful helplessness 
have never ceased to appeal to our honor and gratitude. 
But things have changed, and we have the inspiring sight 
of all the churches moving as one body in one direction to 
right this hoary and deplorable wrong. 

It means a guaranty that when the minister is compelled 
to retire he will have an annuity, or annual income, from 
some fund for his aid and comfort. I believe that the one 
great department of Southern Baptirt work that has suf- 
fered from thr lack of purpose, coordination and leadership 
is the one which relates to the support of the retired minis- 
ter. Treated thus, where would our missionary enterprises 
bel If, when we began our foreign mission work we had 
grappled in a similar way with the question of the proper 
care of OUT worn-out preachers and their widows, no man 

in the Southern Baptist ministry would be in danger today 
of hearing the snarls of the gaunt wolf of hunger. 

neral Belief 
The work of the Convention Board is organized to give 

gracious relief to tic-.- who, in their s.-rvice, have come to 

need. Thei shame in their necessities. It 

is the badge of til* 4 L rd - 1 ma For a Dumber of years 

relief work has been going on in most of the states, hut has 

never met the plain and simple needs of the veterans of 
the ( "r< 

To this department of the work, the Relief and Annuity 
Board has fiveil Lt8 first attention. The endeavor has been 

to bring the states in! I financial relationship to the 

board, by turning their work of relief, and permit- 

ting the same to he done by the Belief and Annuity Board, 
giving it, at the same tine 1 , a large place in their budget of 
benevolences. In this department of the work we have met 
with little but cordiality and enthusiasm. The states have 
thrown wide open their doors to us. 



AM 777;/; OF THE MOVEMENT 

We Q6V6r think of this work as charity. It is, in the 

very highest sense, a debl and should be regarded as an 
imperative obligation to those who use their strength in 
the Bervice of the churches. No blessing can be expected on 
b denomination which allows the veteran soldiers of Christ 

to go down to their graves dependent on charity, looking 
to a miserable pittance as though bestowed upon a beggar 

for the hare substance of life. 

The board is now carrying a large number of bene- 
ficiaries, some 275 of whom are widows. These beneficiaries 

all receive fixed stipends, which are sent to them bi-monthly. 

We have just begun to touch the fringe of our respon- 
sibility. The need among Southern Baptists is very great. 
We have thousands of pastors in our Southern Baptist min- 
istry. A few of these may command salaries which make 
them independent of any phase of ministerial relief, but 
the majority cannot possibly save up a modest competency 
for the inevitable day of retirement. There are hundreds 
and hundreds of these men now, whose minds are always 
troubled, and who know 7 no such thing as freedom from 
worry and anxiety about the future; old couples drawing 
near the evening of life with barely enough to provide the 
commonest necessities of life, and without any of its 
luxuries. 

The General Relief side of our work must ever be its 
greatest department. In this department we make pro- 
vision for ministers who, for one reason or another, can 
never become members of the Annuity Fund ; such pro- 
vision must be large and ample. It is in this department 
that we deal with widows and the orphan children of 
3 id ministers. This relief income should, by and by, 
be made absolute for every minister who has behind him 
an honorable and faithful life; and just as a veteran soldier 
takes his pension without anybody putting him through an 
inquisition as to whether he has a few dollars or a shack 
somewhere, so should a veteran preacher receive a modest 



28 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

support, in the form of an income, without humiliating 
questionnaires. When he has worn himself out in the 
ministry, he should be entitled to this modest income as a 
matter of right, and no one should have the right to ask 
him to disclose how much he might have buried in an old 
stocking, or what his little investment is somewhere. That 
day, however, cannot come until we have gathered millions 
for an endowment fund. For this department of the work 
we have pledged in the $75,000,000 campaign $1,250,000, 

The Annuity Fund 

This is a fund which embodies a contributory pension 
idea, and permits the minister, by making regular annual, 
semi-annual, or quarterly payments, to provide, in part, i'ov 

bis old age and disability. The minimum benefits Of this 

fund, at the start, were $100 annually. The maximum 
benefit is $500 annually, for the real of ids life, for every 
member who has reached the age of 68 and who has served 
in the Baptist ministry for thirty years. The minis 

himself provides for the minimum annuity of $100, and 
the denomination makes tin 4 provision for the other $400, 

making a maximum of $500. 

The fund is now about two years "Id. The denomina- 
tion has already provided $200 "I" its $400, so that the fund 
now stands at $300, which is (J<> per cenl of the maximum 
of $500, which is to say that if any member of the fund 
should become totally and permanently disabled he would 
begin to receive $300 per annum. As the fund stands 
today, that would be his minimum annuity. No member 

of the fund can ever receive less. When a member dies the 
widow receives three-fifths of his annuity. In the event of 

her death or remarriage, the annuity will be equally divided 

among the minor, unmarried children. 

The provisions of this fund have been so enlarged that 

laymen who are giving all of their time to religious work, 



NATURE OF THE MOVEMENT 89 

as servants of the denomination, are entitled to member- 
ship in the Cund and to all of its benefits and provisions. 
The Bame thing is true as to women missionaries of the 
Some and Foreign Boards, and of state boards as well, the 
idea being to make provision for all workers who, for any 
reason in their old age, might have an equitable claim on 
the denomination for support. Lei it be understood, how- 
ever, thai if anyone, after becoming a member of the 

iiuitj Fund, whether he be preacher or otherwise, should 
give up his work for the denomination and enter secular 
fields of Labor, his membership would be forfeited. Such 
members, however, would be entitled to the benefits of the 
withdrawal provisions of the plan. That makes it fair to 
both sides. 

Let us notice one or two things about this fund, easily 
overlooked : 

First. All premiums cease when a member becomes 
disabled, or reaches sixty-eight. 

Second. If a member becomes disabled or dies before 

his annuity reaches the maximum, the annuity continues to 

grow for the benefit of himself, if he should live, though he 

ises to pay, or for his widow and orphan children in the 

nt of his death, until it reaches a maximum of $500 for 
himself and $:300 for his widow. 

Third. Any member may take as many units as he 

pleases and thus increase his annuity $100 per year for 

each unit. One unit would give him an annual income of 

:i a full paying fund, two units $600, three units 

and so on. There is no limit. Some of the brethren 

tarrying live units. For this department of the 

rk we have pledged in the $75,000,000 campaign 
$1,250,000. 

Thus today Southern Baptists face the great task of 
providing for their disabled and aged servants with a 
harmonious and complete plan. On one side is relief, 
which is the ambulance at the foot of the hill, which will 



30 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

continue to provide for those who may have need in the 
day of their dependency. On the other hand, annuities 
which will increasingly assist men now young to provide, in 
part, for their disabilities or old age, thus building a fence 
around the top of the hill of disability. 



THE UNPAID DEBT TO THE MINISTRY 

BSGRETASY J. T. HeNBERSOBT, 

Laymen's Movement, Southern Baptist Convention 

TX determining a just compensation for service, at least 
*■ two considerations are to be taken into account. The 
first is a question of preparation and skill; the second is a 
question of value to the community. The man who pos- 

B high or»l<T of genius and has expended niiieh time 

and money in preparation should become an expert in his 
line and is entitled to good remuneration. The citizen who 
makes a large contribution t«> the public welfare is likewise 
entitled to liberal compensation. The capable and faithful 
preacher ranks high in both respects. God has rec< 
his gifts in extending to him a divine call, and he has B] 
years of diligent study in preparation that he may bec< 

,4 a workman that needeth not to be ashamed. lie 
sl'ill<<l workman; he has specialized and takes the rank of 

an expert 

hi the matter of contribution to the public welfare, he 

is also the mOSl significant factor in the community; his 

service touches and stimulates v\rry worthy cause. He 

proclaims those principles that transform character, that 

make for the highest welfare here ami that guarantee 
security ami happiness hereafter, lie deals with perma- 
nent values, lie is the friend of law and order, of peace 
and fraternity and of justice tempered with mercy, lie is 

the greatest money maker in the community, not for him- 




JOIIX THOMPSON HENDERSON 

John Thompson Henderson was born at Belltown, Tenn., the bod 
of Benjamin Peck and Margaret Adaline Henderson. He took the 
A. B. degree from ('arson College in l xs -'»; the A. M. degree from 
the same institution in I s !)"); and attended Columbia University, 

9-1900. Be married Sophronia California Williams of Rural Vale, 
Trim., in 1883. He has been professor of mathematics in Carson 
College, 1883 L893; president Carson-Newman College, 1893-1903 ; 
president Virginia [ntermonl College, Bristol, Va., L903-1914. He 

a the presidenl of the Tennessee Baptisl Convention, L891-1902; 
president Baptisl Congress, L896; vice-president Southern Baptist 
Convention in L898 and L917; president Baptist General Association 
of Virginia, li" 1 "; and general secretary of the Laymen's Missionary 
Movement Bince July 1, L908, Jli> address is Knoxville, Tenn. 



NATURE OF THE MOVEMENT 31 

Belfj bul for his QeighbOrS. Should We eliminate th6 

preacher in any community and close the church doom per- 
manently, we would then he able to appraise his value. 
Property values would decline, business would suffer, im- 
morality WOUld hold sway, and it WOUld heroine Qece8Sary 

to strengthen the police and enlarge the prison. This 
skilled servant o\' society therefore merits a good salary 
because he is both an expert and a benefactor. 

The average salary of the college trained preacher is 

17, while that of the minister who has not had such 
educational advantages but is "mighty in the Scriptures" 

and "full of the Holy Ghost" is much less. The latter may 
lack in 1 lie training the schools impart, but often he is 
marvelously effective in his labors; he "preaches the Gos- 
pel with demonstration of the Spirit and with power." 

Prom the standpoint of effective service he is worthy of 
higher hire. 

The average income of the industrial worker is about 
$1,250. He usually does not possess a high grade of intel- 
lect and his work calls for little training. His service, while 
valuable, is largely muscular and is circumscribed in its 
influence compared with that of the effective minister of 
Christ. Justice demands that the trained preacher, who is 
the greatest benefactor of his race, should receive larger 
remuneration than the unskilled laborer. 

When Jesus said "The laborer is worthy of his hire" 
he doubtless meant that his compensation should be in 
keeping with the grade and value of his work. In other 
words, he is entitled to pay for the service he renders. In 

■ of ilir effective preacher this would involve more than 

a mere living. Many churches seem to think they have 

3 barged their full obligation in 1 lie matter of pastoral 

support when they have enabled the minister, with the 

exercise of rigid economy, to make ends meet. This skilled 

workman and valuable servant of society should receive 
such compensation as will enable him to live in comfort 



32 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

and respectability, and at the same time lay aside some- 
thing for the day of infirmity. Do not deny the retired 
preacher the satisfaction and dignified self-respect that will 
come with the consciousness that all li is legitimate wants 
have been well provided for from the revenues of his own 
faithful labors. This is the highest form of ministerial 
relief and will do much to shed a halo of joy over his 
declining years and to make his last days his best. He 
is as much entitled to this self-support as the farmer or 
merchant. 

There arc some that think it wise to guard the preacher 
against the mercenary spirit which is so thoroughly out of 

harmony with his high calling and so hurtful to his reli- 
gions influence. They claim that 1m 1 should have no surplus 
at the end of the year, thai the investment of this fund will 

take time and thought that should be expended on his 

ministerial duties and tend to cojnmercialize his thinking. 
'idie real fad is, they are more influenced by their own 
spirit of g^eed than by their desire to protect the pastor. 
The pity of it all is that they have been so careful to pro- 
tect him from unholy alliances that they have fallen far 
short of giving him even a reasonable Support. Instead of 

mixing up with the world to Becure a wise investment of 

his surplus, the preacher has had to engage iii hnsiness 

activity to supplement the niggardly Balary these professed 
disciples have paid. In any event the fair-minded Christian 

must admit that the salaries of Capable preachers, a 
rule, have heen entirely too low. 

Such a policy has made it necessary to establish "The 

Belief and Annuity Board"; this board would seek to 

make amends in some measure for the dereliction of the 

past. Deacons should COnfeSS and repent of their sins and 

"bring forth fruits meel for repentance." This new board 
affords us an opportunity to redeem ourselves. 

While the situation is improving and some can lay aside 

a surplus from their salaries for the period of old age, the 



VATUBE OF THE MOVEMENT 88 

majority of our preachers must face the depressing facl 
that they cannot provide for the future and must be lefl to 
the mercy of friends — not a very comfortable outlook. 

This much has been said to emphasize the fart that tin 1 
fund tor ministerial support is not a charity hut the pay- 
ment of a just debt. While the denomination has given 
these faithful servants of God little opportunity to accu- 
mulate any surplus, it now fully recognizes that their serv- 

- were worth far more than they received; prompted by 

a Bense of justice, the denomination now proposes to "pay 
Up" and thereby provide comfort for these heralds of the 
cross in the evening of their lives. Every consideration of 
justice, supplemented by a deep sense of gratitude for their 
abundant and fruitful labors, challenges us to do the just 
and generous part by them. 

Ample provision for the retired preacher is not only 
demanded by the claims of justice but is in accord with 
the wisest business policy. Many strong and self-respecting 
young men have been deterred from entering the ministry 
by the prospect of inadequate support during the period of 
their active service and of utter and embarrassing poverty 
in old age. We must remove every barrier that deters 
young men from entering the ministry, and then our 
prayers for more laborers will have more abundant answer. 
Again, it must be a constant source of depression to the 
zealous preacher to face an old age of poverty and depend- 
ence; under such conditions he cannot be 100 per cent 
efficient, even in the days of his health and vigor. We 
need to cheer his spirits and quicken his energies by mak- 
ing ample provision for his comfort when the shadows begin 
to lengthen. This we do in payment of a debt of long 

tiding. "Owe no man anything but to love one 
another. M 



34 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

A "WAB BONUS" FOR THE VETERAN PREACHER 

Dr. I. J. Van Xess, 
Corresponding Secretary, Sunday School Board, S. B. C. 

A T the time this is written there is before Congress a 

-^ bill to pay a bonus, proportioned to the length of 

vice, to all enlisted men and officers who served in the 

great war. At first it seemed as if this proposed a raid on 
the treasury. It has been explained, however, and with 
force, thai this is not the correct view. The claim of those 

who are pressing this action upon Congress is that the 

soldier Stepped adde from commercial pursuits during the 
time when those who remained in their occupations or 
Undertook war work in the industrial establishments made 

high wages and received financial profit. They are asking 
to share in this war-time prosperity. Considered from this 

Btandpoint, the claim of these soldiers for a bonus is not 

an unjust one. As veterans, they are the men who made 

p ssible tic prosperity which came to others. They did 

not make their sacrifices for their own profit, but they 
find, and are glad to find, that our nation did prosper 

because of the unselfish service they rendered. They now 

ask for what they think is a reasonable share of what they 

It teems to me that there is a parallel here in the work 

of our Board Of Relief and Annuities. Would it not be 

well if instead of the phrase "old preacher," or "worn-out 
preacher/' we mighl use the term "veteran preacher" 1 

In a growing numl er of cases it is the true term. In other 

words, it h not simply their decrepitude, but the Bervice 

they rendered at small compensation in laying the founda- 
tions for our present Baptist prosperity which entitles 

them to a bonus, just as (dearly as the claim of the soldiers 

is to be justified. 

For it is the work of the veteran, or the pioneer, which 




J. J. VAX NESS 



]>r. I. J. Van Ness was born in Easl Orange, X. J., July 1~>, I860. 
He is the son of Austin and Caroline R. (Jacobus) Van Ness. He 
graduated from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in L890. 
Mercer University of Georgia conferred the degree of i>. D, upon him 
in l s D7. He was ordained to the ministry in L890. He married Miss 
Frances A'. Tabb, of Louisville, in 1891. 

Doctor Van Ness has bold many important denominational posi 
tions. From L890 to 1896 he was a pastor in Nashville, Tenn. Prom 
L896 to 1900 he was editor of the christian [ndex, Atlanta, Ga, He 
editorial secretary of the Sunday School Board from L900 to 

L917, and since then lias been its corresponding secretary and 

treasurer. 

Ee was president of the Sunday School Editors' Association of 
the Unit - and Canada, L906-7 j chairman of editorial section, 

L912-14; president of the Sunday School Council of Evangelical De 
nominations, L916 17; and has been member of the International 
lay School Lesson Committee Bince L915 and of the World's Sun- 
day School Executive Committee since L916. 

Doctor Van Ness is the author of the following books: "Training 
in Church Membership" and "Training in the Baptist spirit." 



NATURE OF THE MOVEMENT 38 

lays the foundation \'^v better days. I can call to mind as 
I write and Bee the faces of hundreds of Baptist preachers 
in the various states whose names are familiar to the 
churches because fifteen or twenty yeai or even a 

ade ago, they Berved faithfully and well, Many of the 
churches to which they ministered have since prospered 
greatly, and all because back yonder they did the pione r 
work. The denomination also lias prospered because of the 
work these men did. Some of them served many churches, 
putting these churches upon a firm basis, and so have left 
the influence of their work in a broad denominational way. 

Because of the sacrificial labors of such men in a day 
when our denomination was finding itself, we have been 
enabled to do the greater things of the last few months, and 
will do the still greater things of the next few years. Other 
men labored and we have entered upon their labors. The 
question, therefore, for us is, Have not these veteran 
preachers a right to share in the prosperity of our present 
days? It is not charity but a right. They compose the 
* l Southern Baptist Legion, " unorganized but not unrecog- 
nized, who saved the cause for us and made our prosperity 
possible. 

The organization of the Board of Relief and Annuities 
111 rough ils annuity feature makes it possible for the 
younger minister of today to provide for his own future in 
cooperation with the denomination. The veteran preacher 
of the days just passing was not given this opportunity. 
The relief side of the w r ork of the board should, therefore, 
be understood from its standpoint of a pension or bonus 
due for the labors by which the rest of us coming along 
after them have prospered. It is relief in a sense; relief 
from anxiety and care, but is the relief of justice and right. 

When Southern Baptists organized t lie Relief and 

Annuity Board they took up a long neglected task. AVe 

will all wondt r that we aeglected il so long. It seems likely 
that the next few years will Bee this work upon a firm and 



36 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

lasting foundation. Then every veteran will be justly 
rewarded, as a matter of right. 



THE HERO FUND 

SOME day a millionaire may establish a 'hero fund' for 
country ministers who spend their lives in the service 
of the community, nut only ministering weekly to their con- 
gregations, but marrying the young people, visiting the 
sick, burying the dead and responding to every eall. Not 
the ieasl part of their heroism consists in their willingness 
to serve for the pitiful salaries paid in some small towns, 

Salaries smaller than the waires of a carpenter or a hlack- 
smilh and less than a day labor in cities. M — 

Youth 'j Companion* 

"Youth's lire had faded from his fa 
\: id Time bad wrinkles sent him; 

The CTOWD of age, the hoary head. 

The ether world has lent him. 

1 1 : Blow, his eye is dim ; 

There is no hero fond for him. 

"When first he heard the trumpet eaU 
To pn acta the glad evangel, 

His heart, responsive, said, 'I will/ 

As might a strong archangel. 
He preached that mighty word with vim — 
1 1 l< there's no hero fond for him, 

"l»v day and night, through flood and lire, 

( Per dying sinners yearnii 
He palled the sinking from the tide, 

The brands {'rum out the burning; 
Desire is dying now, and dim 

The hope of hero fund for him. 



\ [TUBE OF THE MOVEMENT 

"The meanness of the narrow Bonis, 

Who starved him in the Ben u b, 
[a fearful now— when health is gone— 

That wealth might make him nervous, 
l e claimant's dole is spare and slim, 
Tht : hero fund for him. 

4, Bu(. oil, the chariots of ( k)d 

Are ready to move straightway 

To bear the conquering hero home 

Whene'er he sights the gateway ' 

Tis sunset o'er the world's red rim, 

The hero fund is full for him." 

-r. ii. McRsa. 



THE VETERAN TREACHER'S CLAIM ON THE 
DENOMINATION 

Dr. William Luxsford 

WHEN the day's work of a minister is over he should 
not suffer want for the necessities of life. If prema- 
turely called home, his widow and children should not be 
cast out on the charity of the denomination which he so 
unselfishly served. All past measures for the relief of the 
veteran pastor were commonly regarded and spoken of as 
a charity. This may have been due to the fact that the 
relief provided was on so meager a scale. So far, there has 
never been any kind of a relief program, except for the 
d minister. That day is over. The young and mhldle- 
ed are included in the new program of Southern Bap- 
tists. The provisions of the Relief and Annuity Board 
will soon cease to be thought of as a charity. Its gifts will 
be regarded as a moral obligation on the pari of the 

Churches tO lay up deterred wages for the men who, by 

their ordination VOWS, dosed the avenues by which men 

ordinarily achieve a competency. 



38 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

The new Relief and Annuity Board of the Convention 
plans to make large and ample provision for its worn-out 
ministers. This provision is to pastors, field editors, and 
educational workers of the denomination, missionaries of 
the Foreign and Home Board. 

This movement to provide for pastors and workers was 
inaugurated that they might be relieved of undue appre- 
hension with regard to the future. There is no endowment 
so helpful to the ministry as that of a healthy optimism, no 
misfortune is so to be dreaded as that of dependence. 

The work of the new board is organized to give graeious 
relief to those who in their Bervice have come to need. 
There is no badge of shame in their necessities. It is the 
badge of tin* Lord Jes is. For a number of years general 
relief work of an inadequate character has been going on in 
most of the states, but has never mel the plain and simple 
wants of the veterans of the Cross, To this department of 

the work, the new board has given its Bnrt attention. Our 
endeavor is to bring the states into direct financial relation- 
ship to the ^pard and permit the same to be done by our 
hoard, giving US at the same time a large place in their 
budget of benevolence. 

The Atlanta convention authorized the new board to 
make an appeal for $5,000,000 to Southern Baptists to he 
equally divided between the two departments of our work 

— that of general relief, Which is to have our first attention, 

and thai of annuities. 

We are in the 75 Million Campaign for one-half of this 

sum. As tli< 1 money comes in it is to he divided between 
the tWO departments of our work. 

I 
General Relief 

fn undertaking this large task for our preachers, we 

never think of what we propose to do for them as charity. 



NATURE OF THE MOVEMENT 39 

It is in the very highest Bensc a debl and should be 
regarded as an imperative obligation to those who use their 
strength in the Bervice of the churches. No blessing can be 
expected on b church thai allows the veteran soldifer of 
Christ to go down to his grave a dependent on charily, 
looking to a miserable pittance as bestowed upon a beggar, 
for the bare substance of life. 

There are at least one thousand ministers in our fellow- 
ship today who are almost in dire want. Through illness 
Or misfortune they have been incapacitated and arc not 
able to provide for the necessities of life. Many of these 
ministers have died, having been unable to make any ade- 
quate provision for the care of their family. Many of the 
cases are most pitiful. 

The Baptists of the South must make provision for all 
their ministers when retired by disability or old age. Now 
for the first time they have a harmonious and complete 
plan for so doing, not as a matter of charity, but as a 
matter of supreme obligation. 

AVhile at present w T e are only able to dole out a pittance 
to our beneficiaries, and then only to those who are in actual 
need, it is our hope and aim, by and by, to bring our work 
of relief to the point where we shall be enabled to make an 
allowance to every worthy minister who comes to old age 
and retirement without means of support, even though he 
may have a little saved up. By adding something to that 
little we can make his last days not luxurious, but at least 
free from worry and killing care. If there is a man in the 
world who deserves a peaceful old age, it is the minister of 
the Gospel who has been faithful to his Maker. 

On?- immediate aim is to raise the beneficiaries of our 
board to $200 per year as soon as possible. We shall then 
create another goal and begin to work toward that. To do 
this is one of the most sacred obligal ions resting upon the 
Southern Baptists. Why should it not be so regarded I 

When we consider the preparation demanded, not every 



40 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

one can enter the pastorate at twenty-five years of age. 
Very many go beyond. 

By that time men of the secular world have had from 
five to ten years in their chosen line of work. 

It is not only true, that his active career begins later, 
but it also closes earlier. When a minister's hair begins to 
turn gray he ifl at once suspected of doing the almost un- 
pardonable thing of growing old, though his physical forces 
may not have abated in the least, and mental faculties are 

alert as ever, and his spiritual insight deeper than ever 
before. 

The average minister is no1 serving for money. The 

ministry as a class are the freest men in the world from 

corruption and inordinate ambition. His heart is not Bet 
on money. A distinguished minister was called to an im- 
portant church with a great increase in salary. A friend 
in discussing the possibility of his acceptance said : "Money 
is something he cares but little about For years lie has 
flatly refused to accept the salary allowed him l>y his 
church. II" lia- Bent bach his check for a pari of the total 
amount each year, keeping only enough to live on. Time 
and time again he has refused offers from other churches 
far in excess of what he was receiving." Such a tribute is 
better worth having than a kingdom's crown. 

I am optimistic enough with regard to the purity of 
ministerial motives to believe that this tribute might be 
truthfully given to many men. 

In spitt* of the prevalent worldliness, and the worship of 

the dollar, we do not believe that many ministers have 

become devotees of the same. Never before were so large 
sums given to plant the Kingdom of Heaven in the king- 
doms of this world, and no class of men are giving so 
largely of their earnings to this end, as the ministry. 

Acquisition of property on his part is almost regarded 

with jealousy. Doors to personal property may open to 

him, hut in most instances he dare not enter them. He 



NATURE OF THE MOVEMENT il 

must give himself wimijy to iiis work, spend uid be spent 
in ii. He must not dabble in business or speculate. 

His position with regard to the ministry is not Car from 
being the right one. Certainly he is in danger when his 
private means begin to accumulate, lest he be tempted to 
give up his work. 

By his very calling he lias limitations put upon his life 

thai do not obtain as to other people. He musl be on his 
guard always. Nothing in the way of worldliness must 

detract from his influence as a preacher. For these and 

other reasons the churches must provide for the inevitable 
day of his retirement. 

II 

TnE Annuity Fund 

This is a fund which embodies a contributory pension 
idea, and which permits ministers, by making regular 
annual, semi-annual or quarterly payments to provide, in 
part, for their own day and disability. The minimum 
benefits of this fund are $100 annually. The maximum 
benefits of this fund are $500 a year for the rest of life, for 
every man who has reached the age of sixty-eight and who 
has served in the Baptist ministry for thirty years. 

For the minister who has become disabled, at any time 
after becoming a member of the fund, the plan provides 
a disability annuity benefit. His minimum annuity is $100; 
he can never receive less. He will also receive such addi- 
tional annuity as the denominational side of the fund will 
allow. The maximum benefit is the same as the old age 
annuity — $500 per year. 

The Annuity Plan is not an experiment. It is sub- 

ntially identical with those which are being operated by 
other denominations with great success. 

The advantages of the plan are obvious. The ministers 
do their part, and this in itself constitutes a strong appeal 



42 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

to the churches to do their part. The relation is strictly 
contractual. The denomination agrees to do a certain 
thing upon condition that the minister does certain other 
things. No humiliating questions need be asked. Need has 
nothing to do with it. The minister purchases insurance 
at eighty per cent discount. It is the denomination helping 
the men take care of their earnings. The minister goes in 
on a cooperative basis. The denomination assumes the 
responsibility of what he puts in, and graciously adds it 
four to one. 

ITT 
What ABOUT Tin: PRESENT! 

In thinking of the last days of the minister one should 
not forgel the now. How i> ii possible for our brethren to 
gel on with their present Balariesl To continue such an 
unhappy situation is to greatly increase the problems of 

our board The minister is the pooresl paid public Bervanl 

in th- world. The dollar has lost (in per cent oi' its pur- 
chasing p<»wcr, but the average pastor is compelled to exist 
on the -alary he drew five years BgO. The situation has 

l">. Mime serious e verywh ere. Tlie minister is Facing condi- 
tions which he had no hand in Creating, and which he can- 
not himself cure, and that have almost become impossible 

to bear. What are the results! Borne arc plunging into 

hopeless debt, while others are quitting their work. Viewed 

from any and every Standpoint, the salaries of our pa- 
tors should he increased to a point commensurate with 

living conditions. He can then make sonic provision for 
his own day of need. This is true whether viewed from the 

standpoint of general relief or of his ability to become 
a member of the cooperative plan of the Convention 
Board in making ready tor advancing years and disabling 
infirmities. 



Ill 

OBJECT OF THE MOVEMENT 

The Forgotten Man. 
Dr. II. A. Porter. 

The Preaches and Ilrs Earthly Outlook. 

Dr. C. C. Brown. 

Our Baptist Veterans of the Cross. 
Dr. J. B. Cranfill. 

Shall the Old Minister Be Shot? 
Dr. Byland Knight. 

An Old Preacher's Soliloquy. 
Dr. C. C. Brown. 



43 



"Here are the straggles and striving, 

lie re are the cares and the fears: 
Now is the time to be smoothing 

The frowns and the fuTTOWfl and tears. 
What to closed ears are kind Bayingsl 

What to hushed heart is deep vow? 

Naught can avail after parting, 

re them the flowers right Now. 

"Just a kind word or a crreetin^; 

a warm grasp or a smile— 

are the flowers that lighten 
The burdens of many a mile. 

irney is over,— 
A i ter Taint hands drop the plow, 

What is the OSS of them, tel | 

Bo give them the lluwers right NOW. 

i the happy heart's garden, 

Plucked in the spirit of low; 

111 t are < arthly reflection 

( If flowers that blossom above - 

AY' !. 11 what a measure 

( If bl icfa gifts will allow 

To dwell in the lives of the preachers, 

^u give them the flowers right Now; 



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Ili;.\i;V ALFORD PORTER 



II- -nry Alford Porter, born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, No 
vember L5, L871j boh of Rev, Theodore Hardin and Elisabeth 
Porter, 

Be was educated La following institutions: Fredericton High 
Bchool, University of New Brunswick, u >r of the Wilmot 

Scholarship; McMaster i Diversity, Toronto, ( b oa< ia, and Etochester 
Theological Seminary, 

Be married Misa Elizabeth •, of Tilsonburg, Ontario, 

May 16, I i 

Docl has been pastor of the following churches: Bridge 

water, Nova Scotia; First church, Cedar Rapids, [owa, L899-1904; 
First Church, Oklahoma City, 1904-7: Walnut street, Louisville. Ken 
tucky, 1907-13; Gaston Avenue, Dallas, Texas, 1913-16; Second 
Church, Atlanta, I the present time. 

II.' holds the following ■ B. A., from McMaster, 1894; 

B.Th., B D. I'., from Centra] CoUege of (owa in 

5 and from McMaster in 1915. 



Ill 

THE FORGOTTEN MAX 

I I ;. 11. S EH A li mm I 'OBTER, 

Pastor Second Baptist Churchj Atlanta, Ga, 

saw him a while ago. His beard was long and white, 
-■- his steps short and tottering, his hands weak and waver- 
ing. His eyes Mere rather vacant and lacked luster, but 
they brightened when I stopped to speak to him. lie 
h gan to talk in a high key and quavering voice of the 
good times of the past, the exploits of youthful years. Jt 
was pathetic to hear him. He lived in the days that were 
(lead and gone. A generation had passed him by. He was 
a friendless and forgotten man. He was a. worn-out 
preacher. There are not a few such of God's veteran 
servants, 

Rich in experience that angels might covet, 
Rich in the faith that grows with the years, 

but poor in purse and in the memory of those whom they 
have served. 

Old Andrew Fuller spoke truly when he said of the 
minister, "He commonly lives in too bare a pasture to die 

' ? And when he dies lean, the lot of the widow who 

red all her husband's toils and sacrifices is often a sad 
and perplexing one. 

Tie re is a name that was familiar in an eastern state — 

Bartholomew T. Welch, After nearly fifty years in the 

Baptist ministry ho came to die. It is related of him that 

at times in a half-playful, half-rapturous manner lie would 

hold up his thin and trembling hand before hi- and 

Bay to it : li Will, old hand, what ails you ? You cannot he 
still for a moment. Seventy and six years have left their 

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46 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

marks on you. But bless the King in Zion this day for all 
the service you have been able to render Him. How often 
you have handled the sacred pages of His word. What 
use you have been to me in preaching His gospel. How 
often you have buried His loving disciples in baptism with 
their Lord. How many you have received into fellowship 
in His church. For how many you have broken the emblem 
of His broken body. Poor old hand! I remember when 
you were fair and young and strong. AVeU, never mind 
the past. Thank my loving Lord, it will not be long before 
you put your fingers into the print of the nails in His 
hand; Not long before you will lay a erown at His 

feet; not long before He will stretch out His own hand, 

mighty to save, and grasp you and greel you, and His touch 
will heal your palsy and send immortality thrilling through 

your every vein and fiber. Be of good cheer, old hand! 

You soon shall touch more than the hem of His robe, and 

1)0 healed forever." 

Who will say that the old preacher's hand was not 

worthy of the eulogy pronounced upon it? Who will say 
that there are nol among us many who might truly express 
themselves even sot shall we forgel them and their 
service to the cause of our Christ! 

Old age is to many a haunting Specter. It has terrorized 

men more than even the fear of death. The most hated 
and feared of all the Grecian philosophers was he who used 

to stand upon the Btreel corner of Athens and cry to each 
one who passed: ''You will be an old man," or "You will 
be an old woman." 

Many are afraid of the time when their earning capac- 
ity shall cease, afraid of the time when they will be jostled 
and left behind by the Speed and strength of the younger 
generation, afraid of the time when they will have to walk 
with a cane or .-it. in an invalid chair, afraid of becoming 
a burden to their children or their friends, afraid of being 
forgotten. 



\JECT OF TEE MOVEMENT 47 

There is, perhaps, among the myths no Badder picture 
than thai of the death ot iEgeus, caused by the neglect of 
his son Theseus. The young man had determined to deliver 
the kingdom of his father from the tribute of seven youths 

and seven maidens to be paid every year to King .Minos, 

ami to be devoured by the Minotaur in the labyrinth. So 
he volunteered, in spite of the entreaties of his father, to 
become one of the youths, hoping for an opportunity of 
g the monster. The arrangemenl was made, however, 
with the father, that if he should be successful and should 
return with his life, the black sails which the ship carried 
should be exchanged for white ones. Theseus slew the 
Minotaur, and Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, became his 
wife and fled with him. But they were so selfishly intent 
upon their own happiness that they forgot the old man 
who every day sat on the el ill's above Athens, hoping to E 
the white ship in the offing, and they neglected to change 
the black sails for the white. And so, when lie saw the 
black sails he fell over the cliff into the sea. 

It was Victor Hugo who said in Lcs Hiserahlcs, "The 
wretchedness of a child interests a mother, the wretched- 
ness of a youth interests an old man, but the wretchedness 
of an old man interests nobody.'' 

Youth is too often careless of age, and forgets and 
gleets those who sometimes are constrained to cry out 
with Hood : 

"When he is forsaken. 
Withered and shaken, 

What can an old man do but die!" 

Ian Maclaren once wrote an article on the theme, 
"Should the old Minister lie shot?" It would he nearly 
as well to put him out of the way as to put him out of our 
hearts and thoughts. 

Strange to say, until quite recently, our churches have 
hem little interested in the old minister. Baptist ministers 



48 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

do not with pomp and ceremony take the "oath of pov- 
erty," but their ordination is almost equivalent to such an 
oath, and nearly every young man who enters the Baptist 
ministry may be morally certain that whatever his busi- 
oess ability he will be a poor man to the end of his days. 
Indeed it lias been regarded as almost a disgrace for him to 
be otherwise than poor. 

If, then, the churches have practically sentenced the 
minister to perpetual poverty, what shall they do with him 

in old age I We know what they have done. They have doled 
out to him a miserable pittance, and have occasionally, 1 

fear, woun4ed his Belf-resped by making him fee] that it 
was considered an act of charily. This treatment of the 
old minister has been Btyled by Mr. Joseph 11. Odell, in an 
article in 77" Atlan ti Monthly, "The Economic Crime of 

Protectant Church." 

At Length our church awakening to the injustice 

to which they have subjected the battle-SCarred veterans of 

the CT< hrist who arc 

v wait in '.r till the Bhadows 
Are a litl le longer grown. 

It is a maiicr for profound rejoicing thai the question 
of provision for "the forgotten man 91 and his family has 

come to have such a prominent place in the minds of OUT 

Southern Baptisl people and in tin 4 plans of our Conven- 
tion. Bu1 ii* the unwritten history of retired pastors and 
their families could be made manifest, it would present 
a a record of penury, anxiety, self-denial and suffering 
would bring the cause of the Belief and Annuity Board 

into the front rank among all the henriicenccs of tin 4 

denomination* 

Whoever forgets the veteran minister or his widow, the 
younger preachers themselves musl not By the Annuity 

plan it is now possible for practically every minister in our 
Convention to help secure for himself provision for dis- 



OBJECT OF THE MOVEMENT 19 

ability or old age and care for his family when his days 
of toil are done. Undoubtedly these annual payments will 
in time be bo supplemented by the denomination as to drake 
a comfortable allowance, paid not as charity bu1 as a well- 
earned right, as "deferred wages'' for inestimable values 
produced 

Mindful of the time when we too shall be old or over- 
taken by calamity and shall not wish to become 8 chai 
upon relatives, shall not we younger preachers to the lasl 

amble man be enlisted in the Annuity plant And even 
if we anticipate no need on our own account, shall we nol 
for the sake of those who are bound with us in the sacred 
bonds of the ministry, press the cause of the Relief and 
Annuity Board and uphold the hands of its noble Corre- 

mding Secretary by membership in the Annuity Fund . 

It is occasion for mutual congratulation that the whole 
denomination is being deeply impressed with the fact that 
it is a matter of chivalry and honor and denominational 
self-respect to care for those who have spent and been 
spent in the Master's service; that it is a debt, a moral 
obligation. We will address ourselves to this golden task 
in the name and the spirit of Him who prematurely wore 
out his life in the gospel service. 

I came upon these stray verses. I do not know who the 
author is. But they so fitly describe many of the veteran 
heroes of the cross and so depict the unshadowed light that 
we would have play about them at eventide, that I leave 
them with you : 

"His form is tottering and bowed, 

Bis aged I ave losl their skill; 

Bui like the moon within a cloud 
A hidden light his soul doth fill, 

"It shin.'th through his careworn face, 

And o'er his Bordid garb it Sings 

The viewless inanl le of 8 grace 

4 : found in palaces of kii: 



50 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

"On journeys high his spirit fares, 
In realms of sunless light is free; 
The triumph of the saints he shares, 
lie stands beside the crystal sea. 

"He hears the mystic anthem tone; 
lie mingles with the tearless throng 

i meet before the great white throne; 
His voice uplifts the wedding Bong." 



THE PREACHEB AND BIS EARTHLY OUTLOOK 

Da C. C. BbowVj 
Treasure iffa Carolina Old Preacher's Fund, Sumter, S. C, 

"Th«»u shall not muzzle the <»x that treadeth out the grain/ 1 — 

"They that preach the gospel Bhall live of the gospel."— PauL 
••The laborer is worthy of his hire." — J< 

T^IIE preacher's high function is to remind men of their 
-■- immortality. A man's appetite will jog his memory 
constantly concerning the needs of his body; bnl Ik 4 is in 
danger of forgetting his immortality, unless constantly 
prodded and admonished Hence, if preachers arc evils at 

all, thqy are neecssary evils. 

It' every living preacher Bhonld die tonight, the better 

class among our fellows would be tip at sunrise tomorrow, 

arranging to make other preachers to fill the places of the 

dead. And, don't forget it, they'd choose this new supply 

from among their own number. It is clear, therefore, that 
to gel a better order of clergymen, we must have a better 
order of laymen. The complaining layman should keep 

this in mind. 

The demands upon, and the qualifications of. Hie 
preacher are quite peculiar. He must be pious above the 
average man, and yet he should not be painfully pious, as 




C. C. BROWN 

C. C. Brown, the son of Col. B. II. and Mrs. C. IT. Brown, was 
horn February 2, L852, at Barnwell, South Carolina. 

Educated at Washington and Leo University, at Fin-man Univer- 
sity and at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Received 
I). I), from Furman University. 

Baa held B place on many boards of the State Convention, but 
his efforts for twenty-five years or more have been directed to 
raising a fund for the Bupport of aged and worn-out preachers in 
South Carolina. Over two hundred have been helped, and more than 
two hundred thousand dollar- expended in the work. 

Baa been thrice married, and has one living child and one 
grandchild. 

ll:iv published two books— "Uncle Dan*] and His Friends" and 
"Thoughts Towards Sunset.' 1 

Became pastor at Summer, South Carolina, January I, l s 7o, and 
there remained for forty year-, his one and only pastorate. 

Hi- home is at Sumter, South Carolina, and his lasl effort has 
been devoted to work up an insurance Bcheme whereby three hundred 
pastors m the state have received each a life insurance policy for 

fifteen hundred dollars. 



OBJEi r OF THE MOVEMENT 51 

■oine few are. 1 1 1 * eannol swindle in a trade, aa some lay- 
men are Baid to do. He eannol tell even a business Lie. I C 
a clergyman should swindle someone oul of fifty cents in a 
ohiekexi trade, it would disqualify him for life as b pulpit 
man. The feathers of thai chicken would forever hang in 
his hair. A laj man — well, folks would smile, and he would 

chuckle inwardly, and open up for business the next day 

wiihout the smell of fire or the sign of feathers upon him. 

The preacher must be neat in his dress. I knew a man 

who lost his pulpit because of soiled collars and cuffs. He 

must be a man of books and of wide reading, and should be 
familiar with a large part of the best literature of the 
world. Books are the clergyman's tools. A hammer and 
saw — the same hammer and saw — will last a carpenter for 
years, but a preacher must have new tools constantly and 
repeatedly. The book that will last a preacher a lifetime 
is a book that very few preachers ought to have. The 
preacher's tools are much more costly than the carpenter's. 

The preacher must neither whine nor complain. He 
knew what his job was when he entered upon it, and all 
complaining is out of place. This means that he must be 
a man of stout and sturdy spirit, far above the common run 
of men. Presbyteries examining applicants for the ministry 
should keep this in mind. 

The preacher must not secularize himself. He must do 
just one thing — be a preacher. "Give thyself wholly to 
it," is what Paul said to young Timothy. The experience 
of multitudes of clergymen has shown the wisdom of Paul's 
advice. The time a preacher gives to farming, teaching 
school, or to any secular labor, is not so much work added 
to his life, but rather so much time and energy taken away 
from the one thing he ought to do — be a preacher. He 
must not win the reputation of being a shrewd trader. He 
must not have the ambition to sit at the tables of the money- 
changers. His money will come to him already changed 
into dimes, nickels and pennies. He must be cheerful — 



52 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

have a merry laughter, with a jolly tinkle of a silver bell — 
be high spirited — walk the world like a prinee, while yet 
conscious that lie is only a pauper — that he has nothing and 
can have nothing — no permanent home, no bonds and 
stocks, and be aware all the time that almost any two men 
in his church can drive him out, justly or unjustly, if they 
see fit to do so. lie must not worry about the future — 
must keep open house to all — never Bel a price upon his 
labors, bllt stand meekly by while others agree upon what 

they are willing i im. sometimes they give accord- 

ing to their means, sometimes according to their meanness. 

That the churches should support the preachers is an 
em] 1 New Tesl doctrine. "The laborer is 

worthy of his hir "They that preach the 

-hall live of the gospel," Paul said; and the Old 
Testament taught, "Thou -halt not muzzle the ox that 
treadeth out the grain." 

So, with these things in his mind, away he goes to his 
work, the choicest work in all the world. There is nothing 
like preaching the gospel, nothing to bo compared with it. 

The machinist e what he can make out of a piece of 

iron or Bteel, the wheelwright what he can make out of a 
piece of wood, while the preacher is called upon to do his 

it to ma' hing out of men and women. Away he 

i his job. it all se< nough to the beginner, 

I the world lies at his feet He is idolized at thirty, 

can at forty, and Oslerized or otherwise disposed of 

at sixty. This [asl act in the play he had QOt counted in; 

in feet, he had QOt BO much as thought about it. Well, you 

w\ he could not think about everything, nor think so far 

ahead 

Bui away he gOCS. Listen attentively, and you can hear 
the ring of his ax in the forest of men. lie may have 
narrow things at home, but no one can detect this Cad in 
his Features nor in the cheerful tone of his tongue. We 

ought to be proud of the splendid heroism of our brethren 



OBJECT OF THE MOVEMENT 

in the ministry, who, it' they suffer, do bo in Bilence. The 
annual struggle to make buckle and tongue meel Lb the 
preacher's private job, and ool often is anyone taken into 
his confidence. To Era lence is better than to be ridi- 

culed in public, and preachers, as a rule, have found this 
out. 

In prosecuting his work, the preacher wins a good place 

among men, and well he may. The best friend you ever 

had was the man who so preached Jesus to you as to induce 
you to fall in love with his Lord. Others may have filled 
your purse with gold, but this man has crowned you with 
an unfading" garland of life, the one thing you will need 
when all other things have perished and passed away. 

But each day tells on the preacher — the church troubles 
tell on him — wrinkles creep across his face, about his eyes 
and lips. lie grows old — preaches old sermons too often — 
preaches too long — mistakes age for wisdom — becomes cyn- 
ical, a critic of his day — is not quick to take up new plans 
— smiles and says, "That won't work; I tried it thirty-five 
years ago" — loves to tell how it used to be — his clothing 
fails to fit him, and touches him only in the high places — 
he becomes a little careless — and is a child again. The 
people — the younger people especially — begin to criticize 
him, and whisper into the ears of the deacons what Gum 
Branch Church would do if there were a younger man in 
the pulpit. 

All this has come about in a day, or even in a night. 
The old man must go. Argument on his part would be out 
of place and unavailing. Never until now has he been dis- 
turbed as to whither he should go. He had an idea that his 
job was for life. lie has never worked for money. If he 
had, that fact would have disqualified him for preaching. 
lie has no home, nothing laid up, no bonds, no stocks — 
nothing but a trembling frame and weakened eyes and a 
mind not now at its best 

What shall this old man dol He has been all his life 



54 VETERANS OF THE CEOSS 

trying to learn to preach. It is too late now for him to 
take up another calling. But the decree goes forth — he 
must leave his pulpit. That was always his throne — the 
one place in the world where he imagined he wore the royal 
vestment of a king. The day he turns from it, and looks 
back upon it, must be the saddest day of his life. 

Oh, the deep, unutterable pathos of the thing! 

The steel and iron companies, the railroads, the great 
Government itself — all have pensions for their old and 
laid-aside servants, while the church, the church which says 
its duty is to promulgate the doctrines of Jesus, has been 

turning out these old and WOm-OUt workers to win a fortui- 
tous living from the uncertain charities of an unthinking 

and unfeeling world. The young man who enters the min- 
istry lias an idea that lie goes in for life, but finds out that 

it is only during efficiency. The man who imagined lie was 
a partner wake- np one morning, toward the end of life, to 

discover that he is only a pauper. 1 saw a man stand before 

a Baptist association, holding in his trembling hand a 

paper from which he read bis resignation as colporter and 
missionary. He told as how he had entered upon this 

work twenty-seven years SgO. Ho had preached many 

times in each church, had visited several times every Bap- 
tist home in the association — had carried hooks and papers 

with him, and prayed wherever he went. Tears foil down 
upon his cheeks as be told how age and disease had over- 
come him, and he was compelled to give np his task. "I 
had a horse and laiL r L r y when I entered upon the work; I 
have a horse and buggy now, and nothing else." Someone 
held his hand, and helped him down from the platform, 
While his old body shook and trembled, and sobs proclaimed 
his sorrow. I looked WOnderingly into this man's face. 
Had he told the truth? Could a man work honestly i'^r 
twenty-Seven years — stay on his job like a true and faithful 
man — and then have at the end of the years just what he 
had at the beginning 1 If any layman in the building had 



OBJECT OF THE MOVEMENT 

made such a statement, I would have held his word in 
doubt. Bui when this missionary said it, I knew he had 
told the truth, and l also knew how rach b thing was pos- 
sible for a man who had worked all his life outside khe 
realm of finance, and had never received more than the 
barest competency. However, God was good to him. Be 
tarried just a little while, and then died of acute Blight's 

disease, and BO his problem found its solution. 

Only <)[' late have the churches so much as thought about 
the old preacher and his "needs. Twenty-five year- ago, 

there was not a slate in the Southern Convention in which 
anything was being done for these old men, and even now 
there is abundant opportunity for good service in this line 

of work, upon which we have barely entered. 

About half the beneficiaries of our Aged Ministers' 
Boards are women, widows of men who once preached the 
gospel. This being true, I have often wondered why the 
Woman's Missionary Union did not furnish a large part of 
the money necessary to take care of their bereft sisters. 

The woman who marries a preacher has a stout heart 
and a strong trust. She gets a husband, and that's all. It 
is generally true that she gets a faithful and honest man. 
She does not have to hunt him at night with a policeman, 
nor train a poodle to follow his circuitous trail. She goes 
up with him in the esteem of the people, and for her hus- 
band's sake is a little more highly thought of than other 
women. She cuts cloth and measures food to suit the hus- 
band's purse, and walks happily witli him through blessed 
years of love and labor. His death seems to be far away, 
and when it comes, is all unlooked for, and startles her. She 
IS in a Strange and new world in a day. She has to move 

out from the parsonage, and enter the ranks of the gleaners 

of the world, with a broken heart and a crushed spirit. 
Then she comes to know the meaning of those awful words. 

"Sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier 
things/ 5 



56 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

I went into a homo once — a home of two rooms — where 
lived an old woman and her daughter. The old woman was 
the widow of a preacher and the mother of a missionary 
who had gone far hence to a foreign field to tell the story 
of Jesus. X<>t a word of complaint came from her lips. 
The daughter taught school, and out of her small income 
gave her bed-riddeD mother food and shelter. All the 
morning, the old woman lay in her bed alone, too weak 
mosl of the time to sit in her chair. The world had for- 
tten her, the forty years 1 work of her husband was being 
pised, and no t the fact that she 

was the queenly soul who had given her Benjamin as an 
offering to the Foreign Mission idea. 

Nothing Btands in the way of the work of aiding 

thes,- dear souls who are laid aside, except the sad and 
solemn truth that it is difficult to gel the priors to plead 
their ca m the pulpit. When 1 called a pastor to 

funl Eor never haying told the old preacher's story to 
his people, he replied, "T own, no man likes 

to display his own poverty and h i before the people, 

and when l think of presenting this cause, I am held in 

check by the Eacl that I ;. bout another what all 

tOO BOOH may ho true ahout myself." 

Helping the Old pi the purest and most abso- 

lute charity in the world. We give money to clothe and 

feed orphaj rase of the hope we have of developing 

them into educated men and women, lint we must give 
money to worn-out pr PS without looking for any sort 

of return— give it aol Of what they may do, hut 

becaU8C Of what : tve done; \'"V the old preacher's 

future, as Ear I is concerned, 1ms behind him. 

While all this is true, and the outlook tor a preacher's 

life is not .so full <»f brilliant prospects, 1 can say to the 

young men who are looking in the direction of the pulpit 
to find a place of labor, that 1 have never heard an old 
man express a word Of regret at having thus spent his life; 



OBJECT OF THE MOVEMENT 57 

but rather thqy .ill declare that it* they could begin Life 
again, they would labor in the same field and come again 
to the Bame poverty. It musl be true, then, thai thpy have 
bread to eal thai others know not of, and thai the Labor is 

■wn reward. 



OUR BAPTIST VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

Dr. J. B. C ran fill, 
Editor, Author, Teacher, Friend of Every Good Cause 

WHEN I was born many of the veterans of the War of 
1812 were still with US, and were being kindly and 
tenderly eared for by our Federal Government. Of course, 
all of the Revolutionary sires — the men who lingered with 
Washington and fared forth to the bravest and noblest 
quest the world up to that time had ever known — had fallen 
asleep, but these 1812 veterans were still living, and I recall 
some of them who, with bent forms and noble faces, were 
still on the time-side of eternity. Contemporary with them 
were the veterans of the Mexican war of 1845. These were 
comparatively young men when I was a little boy, and not 
until recent years did the last one of them cross to the 
rnal land. And what shall I say of the veterans of 
'Gl to '65 — those wonderful heroes who wore the gray, and 
their brothers on the other side of the Mason and Dixon 
line who wore the blue — for they were brothers, however 
much they Struggled in those fateful days of civil strife! 
Then later were the veterans of the war of 1898, and tl. 
are young men si ill. but the Government is caring for all 

the wounded of that historic war. Now there have come 
back from Prance and Flanders our brave heroes of the 
Qreal War, many of them bearing wounds and scars that 

they will carry to their dying day; and our Government, as 

is its wont, is caring for them as tenderly as if they were 



58 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

members of our great Federal family, deserving of the best 
that our noble President and the authorities at Washington 
can give. 

All along through these eventful years I have been com- 
panying with other veterans — veterans brave and true of a 
higher and holier cause than even that for which Washing- 
ton and his compatriots fought, or for which Jackson 
struggled at the Battle of New Orleans, or for which 
Zachary Taylor, Jefferson Davis and K. E, Lee contended 
at Bnena Vista and Palo Alto. Aye, more, notwithstanding 
the oppressions of Cuba and our struggle with the tyran- 
nies of Spain, the catise for Which these other veterans 
fought, and for which they bear their seal's and decora- 
tion^ ; notwithstanding the issues of the Civil War, and, 

more than all, the achievements We BOUghl and won in the 

war with Germany, I Bay these veterans of whom 1 now 

speak are bo brave, bo noble, bo consecrated, so Christ-like, 
gentle hearted, bo anselfish, bo Belf-sacrificing, that they 

stand in a da88 apart from all the heroes of all the wars 
that ever were foughl by the BOnfl of men. 

I am >p. iking of the veterans of the CrOSS — those con- 

querors of the wilderness, those true soldiers brave who, 
Leaving all of the enticements and beguilements of life and 

time behind, have turned their faces to the purpling dawn 
and have ,L r uM" out among tin* sons of men, not to win mere 
human victories or carry any nation's flag, hut to carry the 
stainless, snow-white banner of the CrOSS of Christ; and 

have foughl so truly, bo earnestly and so potentially that 

they have only BOUlfl for their hire, and as the evening 
shades of life come on, they find themselves, many of 
them, BS was the dear Blaster whom they served, without 
a place to lay their heroic heads. 

The most pathetic picture this writer lias ever seen is 
that of a faithful minister of Christ who, bowed with age 
and infirmities, and no Longer physically able to preach 
Christ's Word, is waiting for his summons to come and is 




JAMES BRITTON CRANPILL 



James Britton Cranfill was born in Parker County, Texas, on 
September L2, L858. Bis father was Baton Cranfill and his mother 
Martha .lane Galloway Cranfill. He was educated in the Texas com- 
mon schools of Gonzales County. He is an M. D. of the Texas 
Medical Examing Board, and a LL.D. of Simmons College in L900, 
and of Baylor University in L920. He was married on September 1, 
L878, to Miss Ollie Allen of Crawford. Practiced medicine 1879-82; 
editor of the Turnersville Effort, L881-2; founder ami editor o\ 
Gatesville Advance, L882-6 j founder and editor of Waco Advance, 
l ss <;s ; financial ry, Baylor [Jniversity, i sss( .>; Buperinten 

dent, Texas Baptisl Mission work, 1 sn, .» 92; founder and editor <>t' 
Baptisl Standard, 1892-04; editor, B 'ribune, L905-7; joint 

edito I Prohibition 1'ivss, ('liica Onlained Bap 

tist ministry, L890; vice-president, Baptisl Foung People's Union of 
America, L891-3. Prohibition candidate for \ i President of the 
United States, 1892; * tee, S tisl Theological Semi 

nary; memt> ..• board, Baptisl I Convention of Texas; 

member board of Southern Baptisl Convention for Ministerial 
Relief; honorary member. Philomathesian Societj of Baylor Univer 

. Dallas Art ! >n; member Dallas Chamber of Commerce, 

Dalls mobile Club, Lions Club, and American Sociological 

■ iatinn. 

A - ; >r: • ■ and Comfort* 1 I 1899 : "< ranfiU's Bearl 

Talks" (1906); joint author, !;. C. Buckner's "Life of Paith and 
Works' 1 L914); author, "Dr. J. B. Cranfill's Chronicle" 1916); 
"Dr. .1. B. Cranfill's Joke Book' 1 1917). Published "Riley's History 
of Texas Bapti 1 . Editor and compiler, "Carroll's Ser 

mons" (1895 "Baptists and Their Doctrines" and "Evangelistic 
Sermons' 1 by B. II. Carroll 2 Vol.); Carroll's "Interpretation of the 
English Bible 91 13 Vol.) ; "We Would See Jei " and "A Quesl for 
Souls" (2 Vol.), ! ' v> Tr etl I L915). Teacher, Baraca cli 

Pirsl Baptisl Church, Dallas, 1912-21, 



OBJECT OF THE MOVEMENT 59 

wholly dependent upon the chance gifts and charities of 
those benevolently inclined. 

This is why the movement tor ministerial aid, bo bravely 
and courageously led by our beloved ReV. Win. Luhsford 
of Pallas, Texas, is bo important a work as it is. He, as 
executive secretary of this new Southern Baptist Conven- 
tion Board, is charged with a dignity and a responsibility 
and a ta>k such as thus far lias never been committed to 
the hands of any living man. Every day some great old 
preacher of Christ's Word lays down the task to which 
God called him in his happy and trustful youthful ycara 
and finds himself unable longer to prosecute this wonder- 
fully engaging and Heaven-appointed work. While our 
Baptist people have been growing rich and yet richer still, 
and while their achievements have not only been the sensa- 
tion of ecclesiastical activities of the Western world, and 
have even been more surprising to themselves, they have 
thus far left this great work of caring for their own old 
ministers absolutely alone. Here and there have been 
spasmodic efforts, as in Texas and some other states, to 
care for our invalided and infirm preachers, but never until 
now has there been a widespread, systematic forward move 
in this transcendent interest. 

I am hoping that our Baptist people will be as thought- 
ful as is our Federal government in the care of our own 
heroes. It is not much that we can do for them, no matter 
how T well we care for them, as they face the westering sun. 
We cannot measure our gifts to them by the deeds they 
have done for us and ours. Well do I remember the only 
time I ever saw J. W, D. Creath, one of the immortal early 
missionaries of the old Baptist State Convention. lie came 

to my father's house when I was ten years old, quite sick 
and feeble from his long, laborious ride. At that time the 

missionaries went on horseback through the country. There 

were no roads, no teams, no carriages and no automobiles. 
We made him the best bed we had, and [, a little boy. 



GO VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

helped him toast his feet at the fire, and next morning 
when he went his way my father gave him a contribution 
to his work. A little later this dear man became a care 
upon his brethren, and, while everything was done for him 
that could be done in those early times, he, as well as many 
other of those old-time frontier preachers, suffered much 
because there was no organized effort to care for them. 

If, at the judgment bar of God, we are to iind our 
record confronting as and be applauded and awarded our 
reward there according to what we have done for Christ, we 
will find our greatest asset in what we have dene for 
Christ's ministers. In the olden time in famine-stricken 
Sarepta there was a lonely widow, whose food had almost 

all been consumed. There came that way a traveling 
prophet of God, and he a>ked this widow if he might share 
her last meal Surely. CYiTy sentiment of self-interest 

would have su I that she should Bay him nay, hut 

not so. she invited him into her home, spread the last 

CrOSt there <>ut before him, and the three 1 — the widow, the 

prophel and the widowV boo — ate the lasl morsel of bread 

they had. 'Die balance ol tin 1 story is not unknown to you. 

God's hand reached down and made that barrel of meal 

and thai CHlSe oi nil in that widow's home immortal. 
During the long years of famine that came on the harrel of 
meal failed not, nor did the oil wane, but they were there 

in immortal plenty because God's prophel had found food 

and shelter in thai home. 

Have 1 said enough 1 Does the reader gel the point 1 
am attempting here to make! It is that you give of your 
means to aid in the care of these dear veterans of Christ's 
cause, (iive bounteously, give heartily, give quickly, and 
whenever you see one of these old soldiers leaning on his 

staff, thank' God I'm* the benison of goodness and grace that 

caused him to be loaned to this needy world to call men 
bach to Cod. ()in- generals, our senators, our congressmen, 
our governors, our mayors — all of our public officials and 



OBJECT OF THE MOVEMENT 61 

captains of industry — aw important men, but the mosl 

important man in any land is the minister of Christ, and 

he has not lost his importance, but rather gained in dignity 

and eminence, when, as an old man, he finds himself with- 
out the comforts of life and dependent upon a loving and 
sympathetic brotherhood. 

1 help us to do our duty by this wonderfully vital 
cause, [f he who helps quickly helps twice, and if he who 
giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord, every man and 
every woman who aids in the care of these old ministers 
becomes uext of kin to angels, because with all my heart I 
believe the angels of God encamp about their way. 



SHALL THE OLD MINISTERS BE SHOT? 

Dr. Rylaxd Knight, 
Pastor Immanuel Baptist Church, Nashville, Term. 

THIS is one of three possibilities ; kinder than one of 
them and not so kind as the other. 

The suggestion comes from a man's treatment of a 
faithful horse. Through long years the horse has pulled 
the load. He lias given the best service of which he was 
capable. He has been steady and uncomplaining. He has 
asked nothing except the chance to labor; he has received 
nothing except sufficient food and care to enable him to go 
on with his work. And now at the end of the years he is 
worn out. His strength has gone in service. And willing 
though lie be he can no longer do the work. What shall be 
done with the worn-out horse which has pulled his best? 

There are three possibilities. The first is the kindest: 
"Old horse, you have pulled well, you have responded to 
Qvory call. Sou have not balked when the load was heavy 
and the hill was long. You have taken the rough with the 
smooth, and have not shirked the heat of summer days nor 
the chill bla^t of winter. You gave faithful, uncomplaining 



62 VETERANS OF THE CEOS> 

service, and even now you are ready to pull to the best of 
your strength. It is not your fault that you can pull no 
longer. I used your strength for my work. It is not your 
fault that you have made no provision for the time of old 
age. You could only receive what I gave you, and I have 
given you only enough for your daily needs. You had no 
chance to save. 

"But you have served well, and now the time of your 
unloosing has come. Because you served me in my necessi- 
ties I would serve you in yours. Yonder is my greenest, 
fairest pasture; here is my deepestj most inviting shade; 
then 1 the streams flow cool and limpid; here is the warm 

bam for the winter days, with the hest of oats and corn. 
Old horse, faithful servant through Long days of toil, a 

worker who need no1 he ashamed of his record, you have 

earned your rest It is a j<y to me to offer you the hest 1 
have. It is yours of right, and my heart will he glad as 
you arc well cared for through the rest of your days." 
I have seen hones like that, horses who were not 

regarded as grafters or deadbeats or nuisances, hut were 

the pets Of th«' place, remembered Un* their long and faith- 
ful service, honored for their WOrk 9 8 sake. 

I h 'i horses like that and as I watched thein I 

have recalled thai word of Scripture from the hook of 

Proverhs, "A righteous man regardeth the life of his 
beast. n And then I have thought of another word of 
Scripture from the lips of JesUS, as he saw men more 
considerate of the beasts in their stalls than of their fel- 
lowmen, and said: "How much then is a man of more 
value than a sheep ! M 

How much then is a minister of more value than a 
horse? Would it not he a blessed thing if Southern Bap- 
tists would care for their old preachers as some men care 
for their worn-out horse8, so that they might have an old 
age of peace and comfort and well-earned rest? "A 
righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.' ' 




RYLAND KXICIIT 



Dr. Ryland Knight was born near Shelbyville, Ky., February 
L876. II«' is the son <>t* Rev. A. li. and Mrs. Josephine Ryland 
Knight. His mother was a daughter of Robert Rylandj who was 
the first president of Richmond ( Va.) College. Doctor Knight re- 
ceived his A. B. degree (cum laude) from Princeton University in 
1896, his Th.M. degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 
in L899, Th.D. degree from the same Bchool in 1900, and his D.D. 
from Richmond College. In 1910 he was married to Mias 
Julia B. Ryland, daughter of Doctor and Mrs. Chas, II. Ryland, of 
Richmond, Va. II<' has served as pastor at Dover, Ky., First Baptist 
Church, Ashland, Ky., Calvary Baptisl ( Ihurch, Richmond, Va., First 
Baptisl Church, Clarksville, Tenn., and [mmanuel Baptist Church, 
bville, Tenn. At this time he is president of the Executive 
T( • m — • Baptist Convention, Chairman of the administra- 
tive committee for the same body, member of the Sunday School 
Board of the Southern Baptisl Convention and member of the Board of 
Trustees Baptist Bible [nstitute, New Orleans, La. 



OBJECT OF THE MOVEMENT 63 

This is the kindest way. And thru there is the crudest 

way. l have Been old horses which had given Long years of 
faithful Bervice, had done their uncomplaining best for 
their owners, had pulled heavy Loads, \\<\^\ taken blows and 
kicks bul had gone on pulling, going their best, uphill and 
down, day in and day out, through Long years with Little 

rCBl and Little thanks. They had worn themselves OUl in 
the dray or the plough, and now their si rength is gone, they 
can no more earn their keep. 

I have Been the owner unhitch them from the last load 

which they were able to pull, lead them to the gate, take the 
bridle off, and with a kick start them down the road. 

Poor old horse! Not a stable anywhere into which you had 
the right to go; not a pasture where you could claim a 
mouthful of grass; not a friend anywhere. Poor old hor 
out on the street, eating a chance wisp of grass that might 
spring up by the roadside, shivering the long winter nights 
in the inadequate shelter of some wayside fence, scarred in 
the summer with the rocks thrown at you by thoughtless 
hoys, out on the world, no work, no home, no friends, kicked 
out and forgotten by the very one for whom you had done 
the most, and to whom you had given your most faithful 
service. 

Poor old horse ! You had rather be shot, had you not ? 
It would be a sweet deliverance from the cold nights and 
the hungry days, and the careless and cruel missiles, and 
the loneliness, the feeling, too, that you were in the way 
when busy traffickers struck at you with their whips as 
they drove by, it would be a kindness to you, would it not, 
if the agent of some humane society put a pistol against 

your head and pulled the trigger. You would never feel 

again that you have outlived your usefulness, you would 
Dever hear again that you were of no account and were in 
the way. It would be a kindness, old outcast horse, to 
shoot you, would it not ? 

Shall the old minister be shot? That all depends. 



64 VETERANS OF TEE CROSS 

There are two other possibilities, one kinder and one 
crueler. I read recently that a Baptist minister had applied 
to the county judge to be sent to the poorhouse. Investiga- 
tion disclosed the fact that it was not such a shameful 
reflection upon our denomination as at first glance appears. 
But the bad thing about it was that it had to be inves- 
tigated. We were not in a position to say, "No worthy 
Baptist minister could possibly be in such a predicament." 
Our own hearts condemned us. We had not provided for 
them as we should. We have used their strength and they 
haw given it, freely, gladly, ungrudgingly. And now they 
have grown old in the service, worn themselves out for our 
sake-, Beeking "nol yours hut you." And now they have 
pulled their Last Load; tiny have served their lasl church. 

Their strength i> gone. 

In some way, kindly if possible, bluntly if necessary, 
they have been brought to Bee thai the church no longer 

wished their services; they were so old and inactive now 

thai the denomination had DO task for them. So they are 
led to the street and unbridled, given a kick, and started 

out upon a careless, friendless world. Poor old preacher, 

it would I"- a sweel deliverance (<>v you. would it not, if 

the agent of some humane Society would put a pistol to 
your head and end the struggle. No church, no work, no 

means of Bupport, no money laid aside (the churches you 

Served saw to i place to turn. Shall the old minister 

be shot? 

Shall the old minister be Shot I Nol if our denomina- 
tion is righteous and considerate. Not if we realize the 
Bervice he has rendered and the kindness and the care which 

is his just due. That he is without funds is no fault of his 

own. He has nol worked I'^r money; his has been a labor 

of love ;i- he has gladly spenl and been spent to preach the 
gospel at lrs.s than a living wage in backward communities, 

in destitute regions, in sections of the country where 
money in scarce and his work unusually difficult .Ministers 



OBJECT OF THE MOV EM Eh i 

are, bs a rale, underpaid, and this is especially true in 
rani communities, ll<»w these men have lived on what 
they have received God knows, God and their self-denying 
families. 

These men who have toiled so faithfully, whose preach- 
ing, whose patience, whose devoted living are the rock 
foundation for the morality and righteousness of our com- 
munities, are to us no1 objects of charity, bu1 rather oppor- 
tunities to express in some substantial way our recognition 
of the debl we owe them for the loyal and untiring and 

hall' requited service they have rendered. 

Shall the old minister be shot? Not if our denomination 
treats him as well as a good man would treat his old horse. 



A\ OLD PREACHER'S SOLILOQUY 
By C. C. BROWN, Sumter, S. C. 

IT was a little home in the country, three miles from a 
thriving town, which was the county seat. Sometimes 

the Sunday bells could be heard across the hills. A few 
plain pieces of furniture sat against the walls of the living- 
room, and in one corner were two shelves of books, resting 
on a box. The frost had already nipped the green foliage, 
and the air was sharp and biting. An old man, his feet in 
carpet slippers, sat beside a table on which a lamp was 
burning. Closer to the hearth, in an easy-chair, sat his 
wife, her hair as while as the cap that crowned her head. 
A widowed daughter — now the sole dependence of the aged 
COUple — was Stirring about in the pantry and kitchen, get- 
ting ready tea and bread *t"V the coming meal. 

'"Wile, is there food enough to last till we can hear 
from Brother Lowryt n the old man asked. 

"I hope so," she replied; "bul even ii' there is not. 

we must not complain. In some way or other, the Lord 

will provide, as lie has always done." 



66 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

"Oh, I am not complaining — not complaining. I will 
not now, in these last days, go back on the doctrines of 
my whole life. I spent many years trying to abate the 
anxieties of the people to whom I gave the gospel, always 
telling them to trust and not be afraid. Now I am trying 
to practice what once I only preached." 

The old man's mind and tongue were now set going, 
and looking up towards a faded picture above the mantel- 
piece ho said : 

"But it does seem hard — hard to have come to want 
in old age, to be turned out on the grass because no longer 
able to work. Sometimes I wonder if it is really a sin to 
grow old. 1 call God to witness" — and his eyes filled up — 
"that for fifty years in the ministry, 1 did not spare my- 
self. People Baid Of ni»\ maybe, as they said of others, 
thai 1 Was preaching for money. But where is it? Not 

'i a homo of my own — no bonds nor stocks, nothing at 
all, but rather I am daily faced by the vexing problem of 

bread, bread, bread! I remember now some of the work 

1 did — the churches I built in the face of many trials. One 

at Deep Creek', one at Mayburn, one at Oak Hill, one at 

Layton, besides those years of mission work in the lower 

country, where the fever took me and laid me up so long. 

That sickness was the beginning of the end. It does seem — 

now that I am in want — that 1 OUghl to have gotten some 
BOrl Of pay t<>v all of this work. In those days, when I 
gave away half of my living, and never thought to lay 
up a cent, I was only striving to accomplish what wa.s 

before me. I did not look far enough ahead maybe. Surely 

I did not Bee the coming of any day like this, when you or 

I should have to wonder if we could k r et bread for another 

day. 1 have Qever till now known what these simple words 

in the prayer meant, 'Give us this day our daily bread. 9 

And then the children — " 

"NOW, dear," interposed the wife, "why lament the 



OBJECT OF TEE MOVEMENT 

children that God took; Maybe they went away to escape 
these evil days." 

,4 you misunderstood me I I am qoI referring to the 
children of otir flesh and Mood, i gave them to God long 

a pro, and I don't think that I have ever had a rebellions 
thought against Bim for taking them. Bui my children 
in the gospel — I am talking of them. And where are the; 
Bow many have told me, weeping for joy, thai they would 
never forget me! Do you remember thai meeting a1 Deep 
Creek in the summer of '701 What a time of refreshing 
thai was! The easiest thing I had to do was to preach and 
tell the story. And it was just a year later that we had 
tin 1 great revival at Oak Hill. In those two years 1 bap- 
tized a hundred and sixty persons. And then think of 
what a long list of names all would make who have eome 
into the church through the long years of labor gone. Now 
that we have eome to this sore strait, is it not natural for 
me to ask for my spiritual children and to demand some 
help from them? Can it be that they have forgotten me? 
Paul, you know, seemed to think he had some claim on 
Timothy, because he was his son in the gospel, and it does — 
it does look to me as if my children should remember their 
old, worn-out father. But they do not, and I think I can 
now see the end. If my thin blood refuses to flow, and I 
go down before long, as surely I must, I want to be buried 
over yonder at Oak II ill wdiere I labored and spent the 
very best years of my life. I guess they will remember me 
when you carry my body back, and will want to put flowers 
on my coffin or on my grave. Yes, I hear them now sing- 
- about the old soldier and the warfare through which he 
But, wife, flowers on my grave or in my stiff fingers 
are UOl as L r <>"d as bread on an old man's table, and warm 
elothes on Ids back these winter days. To be alone in the 
world is not the worst solitude. The worst is that winch 
we are suffering now — the sense that we are forgotten and 
nobody cares for us, because we are old and cannot work 



68 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

any more. I know it is true that our life should be like the 
days, more beautiful in the evening, or, like the summer, 
aglow with promise, or the autumn, rich with golden 
sheaves, when good deeds and good works have ripened on 
the field. But want will beget bitterness, and I am afraid 
I am becoming hitter. If I preached tor money, where 
is it? I had the burden on me of raring for hundreds of 
people, visiting them in their sickness, looking them up 
when they 1 from the church, marrying the living 

and burying the dead. I had to keep the Sunday school 
alive, and work up the missionary enterprises, and I hold 
inquiry meetings, and wrote letters, and Bat day and night 
k — BOm nly to hold the hand of the 

dying, who said they wanted me with them to the end. 
I tried to do it all. I followed many of them till their 
• touched Jordan, and it seems to mo that the love I 
bore for my children in the gospel would have made me 
willing to L r o on over Jordan with them. It was my joy 

to put their hands into the hands of JeSUS, and hid them 
for IIi^ hotter keeping. Then there were the 
Letters 1 had to write, tie ag I had to do, the weak 

churches to visit, the quarrels to adjust, the poor to feed, 
the • ones to reclaim, the visitors to entertain. 1 

don't know, wife, how we Stood it all. But I have nothing 
to regret I WOUld not undo any of it. I only wish 1 had 
hern Bt] and braver, and that the Master had loaded 

on more for me to carry. But to he as we are now after 

the work is over — this is the pinch. The house not ours, 

land a stranger's, the pantry empty, our only child a 

vant ami cook'. I don't think Qod will censure me for 
asking, Win my children? JeSUS cleansed ten lepers, 

and when only one returned to give thanks, he asked, 
'Where are the nine?' Ah! Master, it makes the rough 
path a little smoother, now that I see thou hast even gone 
this way before mo. I am not alone in knowing the dagger- 
thrust of ingratitude.' ' 



OBJEi r OF THE MOV EM Els T 

Just then .'i clear voice, in undertone, sounded out from 
the dining-room as the cheerful daughter sang — 

"Mu>i Jesus bear th€ cross alone, 

And .-ill the world -jo ft i 
No. there's a cross tor everyone. 
And there's a cross tor me. M 

"Yes, yes," the old man said; "and there's a cross for 
me." 

In the corner under a book shelf was a box with a 
hinged top, and upon this the old man fastened his eyes. 
That box contained his sermons, but for two years it had 
not been opened. He had no use for them now. lie gazed 
adily for a few moments, and then said: 
"There's the old box of sermons! What a record of 
the history of a human mind and heart! The mind was 
small, maybe, but the heart — bless God! — was large. The 
heartbeats that are in those sermons will never be counted 
in this world My hope, my love, my warmest aspirations 
towards Cod were all poured out in those sermons. It was 
honest labor. However faulty and imperfect my life, I was 
pure and honest when I wrote those sermons. They may 
be nothing but ashes now r for others, but once they con- 
tained all the fire of my being. Some of them were born 
in joy, some in agony. Some hung struggling on my pen, 
some flowed like a swelling stream of fire. Some of them 
flamed in the pulpit, some of them were dead and cold 
and languishing. But there they are — fifteen hundred 
weeks of my life packed away in a box. Maybe it would 
be good to bury them. I think- I could preach their 
funeral. Soul-thrilling memories, lot them resl ! The vil- 
lage church bell is ringing in my ears. I can see the people 
crossing the green. I am once more in the old pulpit. 
There before me are the forms I love. A sofl harmonious 
song fills the air, and I climb up on it as on a ladder to 

talk with God, while still they sing — 



70 VETERANS OF TUB CROSS 

*My Jesus, as thou wilt ! 

may my will be thine! 
Into thy hand of love 

1 would my all resign; 
Thro' sorrow or thro' joy, 

Conduct me as thine own, 
And help me still to say. 
My Lord, thy will be done/ 

Then reading and the prayer, and the Holy Spirit comes 
down upon us all. I am living it all over again. I Bee 

Brother Brayton sitting there on the corner of the first 
bench, weeping, and dear old Sister Dunn — her eyes float 
around in a Bea of delight." 

The old man had arisen to his feet, half staggering. 
Rubbing his hands across his qrea he continued — 

"Well, maybe this is age and weakness, and reason may 
be going; but these thoughts are worth to me all the toil 
and pain 1 have ever endured. I know I am poor, but I 
have bread to ea1 thai ye know not of. Memories of those 

day- - urge thtt Ugh my brain, and I can live them over, if 

it is only in thought I am happy that 1 can think — to 

think of the souls borne to God, of all the churches, of the 
happy homes once open to me, of the daily greetings with 
pilgrims who were on the journey homo. Fes, I can hold 
again, if only in memory, the hand of the dying" — and he 
ted one hand in the other, and Btopped as if to gather a 

thought. But the thought had come. " I wonder, wife, who 

will hold our hands when we are dying, now that we are old 

and forsaken by the friends of other and better daysl" 
His wife looked up, her eyes red with weeping. 

"All, deal*," .she said, "there is no good fruit to come 

of this. Let us cast ourselves again and again upon the 

good mercy of God. It is not far away to the grave. After 

Ave have made the little journey, all the problems will be 
Bolved and the enigmas made plain. The righteous are 

not to be forsaken. This is the sun 1 word of Iliin who 



OBJECT OF THE MOVEMENT 71 

never forgets His people's labor of love, and I have a faith 
which says thai some heart and hand win yel open to as to 
supply our need. n 

At the table, after the scanty rapper, the old man recited 

a psalm, and the little family bowed their heads in prayer. 
That night, after retiring, when his head was pillowed tor 
sleep, a sweet peace came down upon him, the kind Master 
gave him refreshing rest. But when the morning came, and 

the breakfast table offered so little to tempt a weak appe- 
tite, he found that the harassing problem was still there — 
whence is my bread to come? Nor was it ever finally re- 
moved till life's sun paled away and set forever. Then 
the old man had bread and to spare, for he sat daily at the 
Master's table, in a land of plenty — the only land where 
problems never come to preachers, whether they be young 
or old. 

Bread I bread! for the old and broken in strength! 
O brother, this is no idle question. There are many who 
are asking it today. They have journeyed long and far; 
their hands are tired, their feet sore. The wrinkles are be- 
coming plainer and the eyes deeper set, while in weakness 
they stagger on. God once sent the ravens to feed his ser- 
vant; but now the ravens come no more, and the old men, 
faltering by life's wayside, are looking about for help. 
If charity is sweet, it must be doubly so when it not only 
relieves of want these faithful and true heroes, but also pays 
a debt which we their children ow T e to our fathers in the 

pel — the men who in better years bore the burden of 
toil among the churches, and are now laid aside, asking 
only to be fed by us for a few days till, by grace, they can 
come at last to the land of plenty and eat of the "old 
< orn of i a. n 



IV 

REASONS FOB THE MOVEMENT 

Why \ Dependable Pension 1 
Dr. J, \Y. Porter, 

K U30N8 Why We Shall Win. 
Di'. J. .1. Hurt. 

Not ( Ihabity But Justice, 
Dr. P. C. McConnell. 

Debtor to the Preachers. 
Dr. M. E. Dodd. 

Yuiy the Minister Should Insure His Life. 
Dr. E. Y. Muffins. 

lSONS for Success. 
Dr. II. L. Winburn. 

: Reasons. 

Dr. II. II. Sweets. 

Helping Those That Helped. 
Mis> Elizabeth X. Briggs. 

The Retired Minister and the Honor of the Churches. 
Dr. J. M. Dawson. 

The Pastor Doing Business on the Side. 
Dr. L. P. Scarborough. 

The Preacher's I Iethsemane. 

Dr. A. R. Bond. 

I i! u;n v, But Debt. 
Dr. AY. W. Landrum. 

The Mantle op Ouh Fathers, 
Dr. E. C. Eouth. 

73 



"Take my withered hand in yours, 
Children of my soul, 
Father's heart is craving love, 

Father's growing old. 
See the mows of many years 

Crown my farrowed brow,— 

As I've loved and eared for you, 

Love and keep me not 

"Lay y<»ur hands upon my head, 

It cannot be tor long— 
I've been growing weak the while 

You've been gTOWUlg Strong; 

I have t<»iied and prayed for yon, 

Ask not why <»?• how— 
As I've loved and petted you, 

Love and jn t mc now." 



74 




.1. w. PORTER 



Dr. J. \v. Port.'!- was born in nty, Tenni August 

B, L863, the in and Martha Carolina (Tharp) 

i : • i mberland University, 

Tennessee, In i v ^ a] Semi 

nary, 1893; D.D. from Keiche CollegOj Louisiana, L900; LLJ). Qnion 
University, Tennessee, 1913. 

He married Lillian E. Thorns rmantown, Tenn., in 1 s, .»l\ 

Doctor Porter practiced law from i vv _' 5 prior to his being ordained 
to the ministry in L890. He has been pastor in Germantown. Tenn.; 
Collierville, Tenn.; r- ■ ee Valley, Ky. j Maysville, Ky.; Newport 
Nrws \'a. ; and First Church, I >n, Ky, During oia pastorate 

at Lexington the church bas erected a magnificent structure which 
is said to cover more ground than any other Baptist Church in the 
world. 

D< t<>r Porter has been editor of the Western Recorder, Louisville; 
also president Baptist B i eern; trustee of the Barbourville 
Ky. [nstitute; Hall-Moody [nstitute, Tenn.; and i >wn ( '"i 

lege Ky, . 

tie is widely known in the denomination as a lecturer and an 
evangelistic preacher of great povi 



IV 

WHY A DEPENDABLE PENSION FOB THE 
RETIRED MINISTER I 

Dr. J. w. Poster 
Pastor First Baptist Church, Lexington, Ky. 

TBE wisdom of a pension system is too evident to justify 
discussion. In practically every line of life the need 
of a dependable pension is a dosed question. It is hardly 

necessary to say that any proposed pension system should 
be absolutely dependable. The question in the past in 

connection with the pension problem has been its lack of 
promised permanence. This has been particularly true in 
regard to ministerial schemes of insurance and pension. 
Hitherto, so far as our knowledge extends, there has been 
no plan of ministerial relief among Baptists that guar- 
anteed either enlargement or perpetuity. They have 
promised but little, without any reasonable assurance of 
fulfilling what they promised. 

There should be a dependable pension for retired 
ministers from the very fact that they have retired from 
their work. Their retirement has not been that of the busi- 
ness man, who retires with a sufficient competency to live in 
comfort the remainder of his days. The minister's retire- 
ment is involuntary. Having worn out his life working 
for others, his only savings are those accumulated during 
his ministry. The character of his calling forbids his 
participation in business affairs, and in most instances 
without the possibility of accumulating material wealth 
for his old age. His mission was not to get but to give; 
not to hoard but to spend, and be spent in the Master's 
service. 

I am not unmindful of the fad that there are those who 
claim that it is the minister's fault, that he does not save 



76 VETERANS OF THE CB088 

sufficient money to provide for his unproductive period. 
Strangely enough, those who say this are among the first 
to reproach the preacher who acquires wealth. They are 
quick to say, and, as a rule rightly, that the minister 
loses spiritual power when he engages ill business. Others 
have claimed that preachers could save money if they had 
business sense. This statement is as unkind as it is untrue. 
How the average minister ran live on the salary he re- 
ceives is little less than a miracle of finance. The preacher 
and his good wife can make the same amount of money go 
further and accomplish more than any Wal] Street banker. 
God only knows the rigid economy, the privations and 

deprivations of the preacher's homo. It will he one of the 
revealed romances of heaven. Aw assured stipend ^n- the 

old minister and his helpless family, after he 18 gone, 

would s.-rve to strengthen and enriches his ministry. To 
be freed from the harassing anxiety of pinching poverty 

in his old aire would inspire him with the spirit of COUragC 
and Contentment that would make more effective his minis- 
try. Sad to say, hut nevertheless true. m»t a Utile of the 

meditation of the minister is given to fond and raiment 
when he can no longer work. Surely the pathway of the 

preacher is difficult enough without adding penury to the 

Ust days of his journey. We should, at Least, lift from 

his path the shadow of the poorhouse. 

We should make suitable provision tor the aged minis- 
ter thai we may discharge an individual debt. The retired 
preacher does not plead for charity but for simple justice. 

We are not called upon to L r ive him a penny, hut merely 

pay him what. we owe him. All too long we have Battered 

Ourselves with the thought of giving alms to the aired man 

of (iod. We have offered the worn-out worker a con- 

temptihie pittance, and then congratulated ourselves on 
our amazing generosity. In the last analysis, it is not a 
question of providing for the retired minister, hut of meet- 
ing a sacred obligation. Let us cease talking about the old 



REASONS FOR THE MOVEMENT 77 

minister as an object of charity, [f he is an object of 
charity, it is a denominational disgrace. Tims far we have 
not h en just to the aged minister, to say nothing of being 

aerous. The battle-scarred warrior only asks his own. 

The soldier who fights for his country is not counted 

an objeel of charity by his government. Rightly, the 

rernment esteems it a duty and a privilege to support 
those who offered their lives in its defense. The man who 
pn his country is a preferred creditor of that coun- 

try. The truth of this statement is attested by the pension 
system of practically all civilized nations. 

A large majority of our great railway systems are now 
providing pensions for the aged employes who have grown 
old in their service. They have done this, not from the 
standpoint of philanthropy, but as a simple act of justice. 
The managers of these great corporations realize that the 
- of their enterprise is conditioned upon the faithful 

vices of their employes. In giving to them they are 
only returning a portion of their earnings and offering a 
fair reward for services rendered. The pension system is, 
therefore, based on sound economic principles. As a busi- 
ness proposition, the wisdom of the pension system is a 
closed question. 

The retired minister should be provided for because 
he is a minister of righteousness. If those in secular pur- 
suits should be provided for, how much more those who 
pursue the sacred calling of the ministry! Those who 
preach the Gospel should live by the Gospel, and by those 
who have heard the Gospel he has preached when he is 
no Longer able to preach it. Of all men, the messengers 
of the Master should be the last to be allowed to suffer 
for the rities, yea, even the comforts of life. His 

calling is the mosl sacred known to the children of men. 
To allow him to lack for food and shelter not only shows 
a lack of appreciation for his services but a want of grati- 
tude to God. To neglect the minister of Christ is to neglect 



78 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

the Christ he represents and bring a reproach upon Chris- 
tianity. 

It is exceedingly gratifying that Christians generally 
are being aroused to the necessity of adequately providing 
for those who have made the largest contribution to the 
welfare of mankind, both for time and eternity. Any 
organization, therefore, that can guarantee a dependable 
support for the retired preacher deserves the sympathy 
and support of our people. It was for this specific purpose 
that the Relief and Annuity Board of the Southern Baptist 
Convention was brought into being. May the blessing of 
God be upon it. 



REASONS WHY WE SHALL WIN 

D& JOHS JVTKB lh'KT 

Past<T First Baptist Church, Wilmington, N, C. 
(An address delivered before the Southern Baptist Convention, 

May 16, HUD.) 

T^IIK report recommends that we address ourselves at 
-L once to the task of raising three million dollars for 

aged and helpless Baptist ministers in the South, We arc 
a little late coming to the task, bnl our seal henceforth shall 
know no waning. If argument were necessary, I might 
base my appeal upon 

1. Our Sense of Personal Gratitude. What man is 
then 4 among us that has not been started or helped on his 
career of usefulness by some faithful minister of the 
Gospel 1 Gratitude, sincere and unlimited, overflows every 
heart as memory turns back our years to youth and young 
manhood. When Alexander I). Brown, world renowned 
manufacturer of shoes, had come to maturity and wealth 
he begged of a country pastor in the Mississippi delta that 
he would draw 7 on him at sight whenever his money ran 




JOIIX JETEB HURT 



.John Jeter Hurt was born at Ballsville, Powhatan County, Vir- 
ginia, Mar<-h l, L873. His lather was George Samuel Hurt, for 
forty years deacon in the country church. 

Taking a business course at the age of seventeen, he entered the 
service of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. During this busi- 

ss life he felt the call to preach. In the fall of l s, . , -* , » he entered 
Richmond College, taking an academic and law course, acting in the 
meantime as y to the president of the college. He also was 

graduated from the Southern Baptisl Theological Seminary. During 
his ad seminary days he was editor of the Richmond College 

Messenger and the Seminary Magazine. 

In 19 B Do toi Hurt married Miss Ethlyn Lovell of Fori Smith, 
Arkansas. Five children have blessed this union, four boys, John 
Jeter, Jr., Thurston, Harrison, and James Lovell; and a girl, Mary 
In o. 

Following Doctor Hurt 1 tion from the seminary he served 

tweli e editor of 1 A of Ai 

During bis ministry he has b en pastor of three churches, First 
church, Conway, Arkansas; First Church, Durham, North Carolina, 
and First Churchy Wilmington, No i inn. 

Ilr has served as presidenl ot* the Board of Trustees of Central 
Collej etary, Arkansas Baptisl S invention; president, 

Baptisl Board or Education; chaplain-general, Sons of Confederate 
Veterans; president, North Carolina Baptisl Board of Education; 
president Baptist 9 Assembly, and was one of the founders; 

member of North Carolina State Board of Missions; trustee of 
hern Baptisl Theological Seminary. 

The following degrees have been conferred upon him: Union 
University, D. D.; Wake Forest, D. D., in L921. 

He is the author of two pampl Pot Religious Lib- 

in Virginia' 1 and "Some Baptisl Whys and Wherefores/ 1 and is 
also a frequent contributor to denominational papers. 



REASONS FOR THE MOVEMENT 

low, and then gave instructions to bifl bookkeeper to honor 
every such draft. This in simple gratitude to the good 

man Who had showed him the way to desus in the long 

yean agone. We, too, recall our own day of deliverance 

and the servant of (iod who helped us through. 

•'He held the lamp o£ truth that day 
Bo low that none could miss the way, 

And yet so high, to bring in sight, 

That picture fair, — the world's Great Light, 
That, gazing up, the lamp between, 
The hand that held it scarce was seen. 

"Pie held the pitcher, stooping- low, 
To lips of little ones below; 
Then raised it to the weary saint, 
And bade him drink, when sick and faint; 
They drank, — the pitcher thus between, 
The hand that held it scarce was seen. 

"He blew the trumpet, soft and clear, 
That trembling sinners need not fear, 
And then, with louder note and bold, 
To raise the wall of Satan's hold; 
The trumpet coming thus between, 
The hand that held it scarce was seen. 

"But when the Master says, 'Well done, 
Thou good and faithful servant, come, 
Lay down the pitcher and the lamp, 
Lay down the trumpet, leave the camp/— 
The weary hands will then be seen 
Clasped in the pierced ones, nothing between." 

2. / could argue this holy cause from the cxamjrfe 
$et us by others. The faith of our Baptist fathers shall 
have our own unswerving allegiance evermore, but a con- 
fession to humble us is that others have often distanced us 
by the zeal with which they have carried their convictions to 
the front. The Protestant Episcopal Church has in its 



80 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

hands today the magnificent sum o£ $8,500,000. The 
Northern Methodist Church has in its general and annual 
treasuries a still large amount, $12,000,000. The Northern 
Presbyterians are out to raise $10,000,000, and already have 
nearly three-fourths of it in hand. And the Southern 
Methodist Church is afield right now in a great campaign 
for a like amount. You and I believe that Southern Bap- 
tist preachers declare the purest Gospel proclaimed since 
Paul. Yet they are the poorest paid in their prime, and 
their brethren have held out to them no hope of bread when 
the shades of evening should close in upon them and theirs. 

3. Figures setting forth our ability might be adduced, 
but I will not insult your intelligence by presenting them. 

Two significant facts are enough to weigh us down with 

tremendous responsibility, namely, (1) the wealth of the 
South is more than 30 per cent greater today than it was 

just live years ago, and (2) the assessed value of property 

in the South lasl year was greater than the entire assessed 

valuation of all property in the United States in 1880. 

Since the number of white Baptists is far in excess of any 

other denomination, each one can estimate Tor himself our 

combined ability and obligation. 

4. Argument from a of pity is necessary to the 
hard of hearl only. "Han' him down gentle, hoys! Han 1 
him down gentle I His bones is old," said the reverential 

darkey to the younger men who lower. -d one of the fathers 

to his last, resting place. 1 pass the words on to stalwart 
business men of the South, hut exhort them not to wait 
until the last sad rites. Put your strong arms of affection 

ahout these preachers now, and whisper to them that they 
shall not know want — 

"For 'tis harder to be brave 

When treble age cornea creeping 
And Bndfl ine weeping; 

Dear ones gone,— 



REASONS FOR THE MOVEMENT 81 

Jusl a little petting 

At life's M'ttn 
For I'm old, alone and tired, 
And my long life's work Lb doi i 

5. The Contribution of Ministers* Homes io the en- 
richment of national life will appeal io the student of 
economics. Omitting the direct contributions of men and 
w»»iii. mi to church leadership, missionary propaganda and 

philanthropic endeavor, I go on to mention that of the 
twenty-seven presidents of the United states three were 
ministers' sons — Arthur, Cleveland, Wilson. Five presi- 
dents married ministers' daughters — Adams, Fillmore, 

Pierce, Harrison, Wilson. One was the son of a minister's 
daughter, John Quincy Adams — making a total of nine 

out of twenty-seven. Someone has estimated that, having 
had nine presidents of closely related clerical blood, if 
other families are to have their proper innings, it should 
he 10,125 years before another boy born in a parsonage or 
marrying a minister's daughter should aspire to this high 
office. Again, of the fifty-one names in our national "Hall 
of Fame," twelve are from ministers' homes. Finally, 
"Who's Who in America" declares that 17 per cent of 
American notables are either ministers themselves or the 
sons of ministers. 

6. These several arguments will have such weight as 
:i may please to give them, but there is no option with 
whefi thi Word of God is final. Ami so I appeal to 
:. my brethren, finally and most hopefully upon the 

if that Woi d. Paul i^ very pracl ical and pungent 
in his questions addressed to the Corinthian Christians on 
this matter. "What Boldier ever serveth at his own 
charges f n saith lie. "Who planteth a vineyard and eateth 
not the fruit thereof 1 or who feedeth a flock, and eateth 
not of the mill; of the flock? Do I speak these things after 
the manner of men? or saith not the law also the same? 



82 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

.... If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great 
matter if we shall reap your carnal things?" Again, one 
of the marks of pure and undefiled religion, as cited by 
the Apostle James, is "to visit the fatherless and widows 
in their affliction." 

God helping us. we will raise this fund and more! We 
will care for our worn-out preachers while they live. We 
will not neglect their widows and orphans when they are 
gone. 



NOT CHARITY BUT JUSTICE 

Dr. F. C. MbCoNNXLL 
Pastor Druid Hills Baptist Church, Atlanta, Qa. 

CBARITY is justice. The administration of love is a 
demand of the stanchesl order. Good men can never 
dare to stand before the bar of their consciences if they 
do not "provide things honest in the Bight of all men.' 1 
It is not Itss the pari of justice than it is the grace of 
charity to furnish means of comfort to men who have 
labored in the vineyard through the weary day and have 
come to the shades of the evening without personal moans 
of support "The laborer is worthy of his hire." The 

hire of a minister of Je8U8 Christ is not in material suh- 

stance. A preacher's wealth consists of souls whom he 

commends to the Master and the low of an appreciative 

brotherhood. The money which a preacher receives, either 

during his active ministry, or after his days of toil are 

finished, is never an equivalent, nor is it meanl to be an 
equivalent for the service given. There is no material 
equivalent for ministerial labors. It is painful to a preacher 

to have it thought that he estimates his Service in dollars 

and cents. Who could determine the value of a pood 
preacher's life, among men, in terms of salary proportion 1 

The value of such a man as a true preacher in a community 




FERNANDO COELLO McCONNELL 



Fernando C'oello McConnell was born in Clay County, North Caro- 
lina, August 2, l v "'"'. Parents, W. k. McConnell and tlittie Jain 4 
Christine Jameson. He married Miss Bmma Bngland on January 12, 
l v 7t".. and to this union there have been born >i.\ children, Mrs. Myrtle 
McConnell McBee, Mrs. C, McConnell iu, Stuble McConnell, 

Lucius Willingham McConnell, Rev. l\ C. McConnell, Jr.j and Carter 
Jameson Mc< k>nnelL 

Attended the high school -• le, North I arolina, taking a 

preparatory course. He dained to the ministry in i vv , 

shortly afterwards, he entered the Southern Baptist Theological s >'iu 
iuary. Following this In- went to Mercer University, takings Literary 
course, and from this institution holds the I ■■■ if A. B, 

and l>. D. 

During his school days he was pastor i i] churches, and in 

addition I ed as pa I he I 'irst ( Ihurch, I fa i 

ville, Georgia; First ( hurch, Lynchb i a, i v '.'i L901; Cal 

vary Baptist Church, Kai i >uri, 1903-09; the First 

Church, Waco, Texas, 19 present pastor of Druid 

II ills < Ihurch, At la 

He tion in many capacities as secretary 

of the Some Mission Board, commissionei b in Baptisl 

75 Million Campaign, chairman Board of Trustees, Hiawassee Bigfa 
School from l vs ~» to the present time; member of Some Mission 
Board; member of the Executive Board, Georgia Baptist Convention; 
member Board of D of the Christian Index, and a member 

of the Board of Ti I the following institutions: Mercer 

University, Georgia; Richmond College, Virginia; William Jewell, 
Missouri; Mary P. Willingham, ( . and Lexington College, 

M Ls80uri. 

Author of "Faith and I I Baptist ( fhurche ." 



REASONS FOB THE MOVEMENT 

is incalculable. Churches do pay their pastors salaries, 
but never are they regulated by the worth of the pastor 
to the life of the community. If thai were the gauge erf the 
pastor's salary he would be paid more than any other of 
all the valuable men in any community. The preacher pro- 
duces more values and restrains more lawlessness than any 

Other man employed in civil life, and if his salary should 

be regulated by his inherent worth lie would receive many 
times more than preachers do receive. The pastor's salary 
is generally regulated by the liberality of the church he 

is called to serve — not by the ability of the church, but by 
its liberality. Often it occurs that the salary is not suffi- 
cient to meet the ordinary needs of the preacher and his 
family. The preacher, as a rule, has proven a wonderful 
financier, as someone has said, in that he has lived so well, 
done so much, and given so liberally on the salary he has 
received. This is said jocularly and complimentary, but 
it is not a compliment to a preacher to say that he is a good 
financier or business man. A man who is called to preach 
ought to give himself so devotedly to his calling as to 
disqualify him for financiering or for business. To be poor 
at the end of his ministerial career is a normal condition, 
and it should be to his praise that he is poor. If a preacher 
makes money he will do so at the expense of that which is 
essential to his ministry. The right pursuit of the work 
of a pastor is away from the development of the art of 
money making and money saving. It is not possible for a 
preacher to have the habit of saving sufficiently to protect 
himself without absolute injury to his ministry. Preachers 
have been urged to "lay up against a rainy day," but those 
who advocate such a policy are not wise to see that any such 
habit will create a prejudice against the pastor which will 
destroy his usefulness. The pastor is the one man with an 
open hand. "Given to hospitality" is a divine requisite 
in the character of a preacher. Preachers must be liberal 
men. Xo matter how little they have, of that little they 



84 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

must be liberal givers. A liberal giver and a close economist 
are not often found in the same person, unless, and until, 
one is found who first saved and afterwards opened the 
avenues of benevolence. There is an economy with a view 
to liberal giving which is of the highest order, and it is 
precisely this economy that is practiced by the preacher, 
but this heavenly characteristic never "lays ap for a rainy 
day." Such an one does lay up for a rainy day, but not 
for a rainy day of hifl own. 

Common justice suggests a material provision for men 
who arc inevitably brought to need it. The preacher's in- 
surance OUght to he in the love of (i<<d°s people. It OUght 

to be the preacher's joy to rate during the days of his 

vigor with his brethren Who arc willing to provide Tor him 

and thus make proof of hifl devotion to the cause and at 

the same time support the justice of the provision made 
for hiifMftlf and his brethren when their means are not 
sufficient to meet their reasonable wants. It is a labor of 
love to preach, and men who have been preachers are not 
asking any Alms, They have already Caoed too many ad- 
versaries more formidable than poverty. Such men are 

not afraid. They "know how to abound and how to be 

in want." It is not the needy, faithful preacher that is 

making a plea for common justice. "Men who have 

hazarded their lives for the Gospel" are not likely to 

hold out the hand at the last of their pilgrimage. It is 

not they hut we who cry out for justi<v toward God's men 
"who have borne the burden and heat of the day." Just 
men say that charity is jusl and that the investment of 
these men, who obeyed God's call and wenl forth without 

"two coats" in the love of God, and the love of his hrethren, 

shall not he disappointed. Banks fail and investments are 

lost, hut "charity never failcth." Let this beautiful work 
he lifted out of any tinge of unworthiness and ^iven the 

exalted place it holds in Paul's exquisite poem given us 

in 1 Cor. 13. "Whether there be tongues, they shall ce,; 



/;/: ! SONS FOR THE MOVEMENT 

and whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away, bu1 
charity never faileth, Charity suffereth long and is kind/' 
In the lingering Bhadowa let him whose consecrated tongue 
has ceased and whose rich store of knowledge is fading 
•n memory hear the soft step of love seeking her beloved, 
that Bhe may regale him with the ministries of charity, 
which do not patronize but pay the dividend of the loving 
confidence which was bestowed in his brethren lone; ago, 
and in God whose he is and whom he serves. 



DEBTORS TO THE PREACHERS 

Dr. M. E. Dodd 
Pastor First Baptist Church, Shreveport, La. 

Tl ) support indigent ministers is not charity hut a plain 
debt. It is a universal debt because all have profited 
by the preacher's presence in the community. 

The work of the preacher enlarges the trade volume of 
the community, the state and the nation. The educational 
standards he creates, the moral ideals he generates and the 
civilization he produces all require more and better mate- 
rials. The streams of commerce follow the missionary and 
enlarge as his work prospers. It is only a matter of simple 
justice and honest reciprocity that this creator of business 
should share in its profits and should he protected in his 
old age by those who enjoyed the fruits of his youth. 

The work of the preacher enlarges the production and 

pacity of those to whom he ministers. One who 

lives the life the preacher proclaims will find his physical 

Strength enhanced and his intellectual powers accentuated. 

A workman who had been converted under the preach- 
ing of a gospel minister returned to his task with new 
ideals of his relationship to his employer and to his work, 

and with new ambitions and new Strength, At once his 



86 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

daily production began to increase. His fellow workmen 
being outstripped began to protest that he was making 
their tasks harder. "No/ 1 said he. "I am a Christian 
now, and if I am to get pay for a full day 's work I must 
render an honest day's service." His employer began to 
take notice of this and promoted him. Both employer and 
employe profited by what the preacher had wrought. Why 
should they not share with him the fruits of his own 
labor? 

The preacher's personal counsel aids many a business 
man in reaching fame and fortune. Many a man can point 
back to the beginning of bis career as a time when the wise 
words and encouraging and inspiring counsel of some man 
of God gave him hope and courage to launch out. Perhaps 

throughout the COUrse Of the years he consulted his minister 

again and again upon various matters. It aever occurred 
to him to pay a fee for such advice as he would do to his 
physician or lawyer. And it aever occurred to the minister 
to ask a fee. But why shouldn't these fees, though long 
delayed, be paid to him in his dependent old ag 

The preacher is among the be8l educated men of the 
community. He is also a trained public speaker. There- 
fore he is called upon, in season and out, to assisl in pro- 
moting every community enterprise. He supports the pub- 
lic and one private school, encourages social and literary 
clubs and is expected to lead every moral reform — deliver- 
ing talks, lectures and addresses, all without money and 
Withoul price. He is the one free horse whom everybody 
feels free to ride, and when ridden down, why should he 
be turned out to browse and die in dry and barren pas- 
tures ? 

The preaeher serves all who call upon him or who need 
him, regardless of their church affiliation or non-church 

relationship. .My own pastoral record shows that four- 
fifths of the personal visits and nine-tenths of the funerals 
conducted are for people who are not members of my 




MONROE ELMON DODD 

Monroe Elmon Do»l»l was born September 8, 1878, in Brazil, 
Tennessee. His father was William Henry Dodd, and mother, Lucy 
Williams Dodd. The early days of his life were spent on the farm 
in Tennest 

Educated in the public schools of Tennessee; entered Union Uni- 
versity, Jackson, Tennessee, where he became leader in college 
activities, editing the college magazine. Graduated from Union 
University in 1904 with degrees of B. A., and Bachelor of Oratory. 
In L909 Clinton College conferred degree of D. D., and in 1909 
Union University, and 1918 Baylor University conferred the Banu 

During the second year of his college life he was ordained, April, 
1902. The ordination services were in the Trenton, Tennes< 
Church, and Rev. Lloyd T. Wilson, Rev. A. P. Moore, Rev. Mr. But- 
ler, Hon. J. M. Scit'.i-, Hon. L. W. Jones and Hon. R. Z. Taylor, 

composed the presbytery. 

He was married to Miss Emma Savage, of Jackson, Tennec 
daughter of Doctor and Mrs. O, M. Savage of Union University. To 
this union there have been born five children, Dorothy, born July L6, 
1905; Eelen, October 13, I907j Monroe Elmon, Jr., and Martha 
Evelyn, October 21, L910, and Lucille, August 2, 1912. 

In 1904 he was called to the Pirsl Church, Pulton. Kentucky. 

During this pastorate he offered himself to the Foreign .Mission 



Board as a missionary to Persia, but the board later decided not to 
open a mission in this country, and Bent Doctor Dodd as a mis- 
sionary to Mexico. After four months of work in Mexico, and 
earne-t prayer, Doctor Dodd felt that God's will was that he return 
to the Fulton Church, which was urging him to come back to them. 
After four years 5 service at Pulton Doctor Dodd accepted the First 
Church, Paducah, Kentucky, in I908j in March, 1911, accepted the 

Twenty-second and Walnut Street Church of Louisville, Kentucky; in 

April, L912, he began his present pastorate with the First Church, 
Shreveport, Fa. 

IF- ha- Berved the denomination faithfully in many ways. In the 
later years of his ministry at Fulton he founded the Baptist Mes- 
sage. He was contributing editor to the Western Recorder. He 
preached the convention sermon at the Southern Baptist Convention 
meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, in L919. Doctor Dodd was a member 
of the 75 Million Campaign Commission from Louisiana. In this 
capacity lie gave himself to g . not only in Louisiana, but 

in Mississippi, Texas and Kentucky. During the war he was 
Y. M. ( !. A. Religious Work Director at Camp Beauregard for six 
months. IF- also Berved o at the trout. 

He is author of several tracts, among them. "Safe it" Saved/ 1 
"From Carmel to Cherith/ 1 "Loveli Louisiana/ 1 "Baptists, the Bible. 
and Others/ 1 The Man Christ Jesus/' "The Spirit Pilled Life/' 
"The Wise Steward/ 1 "CI : Morals and Methods. 91 

IF- has filled speaking engagements in Bible conferences at Min 
neapolis, Mt. Lake Park, Maryland; Winona Lake, and many young 
peon mblies in the South. 

Doctor Dodd has served as member of the II >n Board, 

Foreign Mission Board, president of the Louisiana State Mission 
Foard, trustee of Louisiana I Southern Baptist Theological 

Seminary, Southwesten Baptist Theological Seminary, state member, 
state organiser, and editor in the 75 Million Campaign. 



REASONS FOR THE MOVEMENT 

church and win*, therefore, under the strictest letter of the 
law, have do legal claims. Granted thai the <'}iun'}i pays 
full value (or all the services its members receive trbin the 
minister (which is granting much), even then the preacher 
renders four times as much service as Ik* receives pay tor. 

Why isn't it thru a universal debt owed by the whole 

community to see him comfortably through to the end? 

Prom thirty-live to fifty is the age during which evrry 
man is most productive. What the preacher receives for 

his time and talent during this period is all out of propor- 
tion to what he might receive from other lines of endeavor, 
and makes it impossible for him to lay up anything for 
old age. A brilliant young lawyer defended a young man 
in court who was charged with a major crime. He suc- 
ceeded in securing an acquittal for his client. The young 
man's father, being well to do and feeling great gratitude 
for the service rendered by the lawyer in saving the life 
of his son, gave him $5,000. Ten years later the young 
lawyer conducted evangelistic meetings in that same town, 
having in the meantime become a gospel preacher. His 
client of former years came to the meetings, out of mere 
idle curiosity at first, but lingered to pray, convinced of 
sin of righteousness and of judgment. Finally he who 
had been without God and without hope in the world 
became a new man in Christ Jesus, a child of God and an 
heir of eternal glory. At the close of the meeting the 
father in gratitude for the preacher's work in leading his 
to Christ gave the preacher $o.00. The young lawyer 
out of his fee could have provided for old age, but the 
preacher could not, though he was the same man. 

The preacher is a first class financier, general opinions 
to the contrary notwithstanding, because U^v the mosl part 
he finances the largest family on the smallest salary of 
anybody in the community. But notwithstanding this, he 
cannot follow even the legitimate methods of business men 
in the prosecution or defense of his own personal inter- 



88 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

For example, I knew a church to get far behind with 
the pastor's salary, as some churches sometimes do. The 
pastor resigned because there was no indication that the 
church would keep its contract with him. They refused 
even to pay up the honest, just and legal past debt. He 
threatened to sue them at court for what they owed him. 
But at once he became terribly scandalized as a greedy, 
grasping money-getter. lie had to let it drop. In the 
ordinary walks of life he would have been entirely within 
his rights and could have maintained a high standard in 

the community, even though he sued his employer for the 
payment of a just debt. 

To illustrate further, a reckless driver ran his car into 
a preacher's automobile, doing considerable damage. The 
preacher made repeated, courteous requests of the owner 
of the car to bear the damage done t^v which he was clearly 
and legally . hut to do avail. There the preacher 

had to si.>p because ho was precluded from Following the 
ordinary business methods by virtue of the position he 

occupied and because Of the standards set for him by the 

people. 

It is well that the preacher is tin. tied and exalted 

by the community. This position the people have a righl 
to require and expecl of him. And because it prevents him 
from following ordinary business methods, perfectly legiti- 
mate in them.-- r others, which would permit him to 
lay up a competency for old age, the very people who 
rightly require thai he take this position should make up 
for their own demands by supporting him when his earning 
powers have ended. 

While tho debt t<> hear the burden of the preacher in 
old a'. r .' is justly universal, it is the church and tho denomi- 
nation which he 1. ved that have the mosl immediate 
and direct responsibility. They have an inescapable re- 
sponsibility. 

A preacher who is a member of several denominational 



REASONS FOR THE UOVEME& i 

boards and Borves in several denominatioiia] capacities had 
his attention called to b certain prosperous banker in his 
city who had been reported in the morning paper as being 
a director in some half dozen business corporations. This 
started a comparison turning over in the preacher's mind. 
Be inquired as to the probable income of this business man 
from these several sources. lie then inodestly asked some 
business men friends to estimate on the same basis from a 
purely business standpoint what his own income should be 
from the various denominational positions he held it' they 
were business institutions of the same proportion and if he 
should put the same amount of energy, time and talent 
into their promotion. They figured it out that his income 
for such services to business corporations should Ik 4 at least 

1,000 a year. If he were worth even half that much 
to business men, why isn't he worth at least his upkeep 
in old age for the free services he renders in his prime 1 

No man who gives to the support of old preachers has 
any right whatsoever to assume a pious attitude and a 
charitable mien, and to say, by act if not in words, see how 
tender hearted and benevolent I am to the poor, pitiful 
old preachers. It is not charity, it is a plain debt. It is a 
solemn debt by every law of right and justice, and those 
who do not pay it are just common thieves and robbers, 
that's all. They have in their possession money which the 
preachers made it possible for them to make, and if they 
don't share it with the preacher in the days of his need 
they are common cheaters of their partners in business* 

A high railroad official was asked for an annual pass 
over his road for a preacher. "Sure, I will give him om 1 ; 
lie helps my business," said the official. Continuing he 
explained that whenever a church was established and a 

<d preacher came into any one of the mill towns on his 

road that immediately lie began to receive larger returns 
on his business investments there. 

A big business man, not a church member, gave ^5,000 



90 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

to a church building fund, and did it cheerfully and gladly, 
saying: "I never lost a penny by giving to a church or 
to a preacher because it always comes back to me in in- 
creased business." 

Some big oil corporations are putting $100,000 into 
Y. M. C. A. huts in their oil fields solely ''because it pays." 
They say frankly that they do it only as a business proposi- 
tion, because this is cheaper than booze and deputy sheriffs 
and inefficient work. 

If then it is GOOD business to do these things for the 
productive period of the worker's lift', why is it not JUST 
and RIGHTEOUS business to support the indigent servants 

in their old age and infirmity 1 

Not charity but common rights and plain justice is all 
the old minister asks for. 



WHY THE MINISTEE SHOULD INSURE Ills LIFE 

Da K. Y. MrLUNs 
President Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 

BELIEVE thoroughly in life insurance. I think it is 
-*- a form of works which proves a man's Faith in God, 

Preachers, as a rule, have little prospect of Baving any 
large sum of money. Thqy are called upon to give to all 
good eansea In fact, they are required to Lead their con- 
gregations in giving, and the greal majority of preachers 
rejoice in this privilege. Their salaries are too small — far 
too small, on the average. One of the greatesl needs of 

the day is thai the salaries of preachers should he raised. 

However, the life of b preacher is the life of a man who 
believes in ideals — indeed, the greatesl of all ideals — thai 
of Jesus Chrisl and his gospeL lie does not work for 

money. He never expects financial rewards in any Large 

degree for earthly labors. He delights to spend and to be 




K. V. MULLINS 



Bev. E. V. Mullins, D. D., LL.D., President of the Southern 
Baptist Theological Seminary, was born January 5. I860, in Frank- 
lin County, Mississippi His father was Rev, 3, dr. Mullins, D. D., 
long a pastor in Mississippi and Texas, His mother was Cornelia B. 
Mullins, the daughter of Stephen Tillman, who was for many years 
a Baptist leader among the laymen of Mississippi and Texas, and 
also a member <>t' the Mississippi Legislature. 

Be was educated at the State A. & M. College of Texas and 
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and at the 

them Baptist Theological Seminary. He married [sis May Haw 
ley, daughter of A. \v. Hawley, In Louisville, Kentucky, in i sv t">. 
He has do living issue. T - were born, but both died, one at 

the age of seven and the other at the ae month. His wife, 

[sla May Mullins, is the author of several books which have had 
wide circulation. 

Doctor Mullins tor, first, <>t' the Harrodsburg Baptist 

Church, Harrodsburg, Kentucky, which he served for four yean. 
Prom Harrodsburg i led to tin- l I Baptist Church 

of Baltimore, Maryland, where he was past years, During 

that time he was chairman of the City Miss 9 I Baltimore, 

and one <>t* the editors of tl Baptist. He was also a 

i spondent <>t* the v - i Bxami i 

He was next called to the Foreign Mission Board in Richmond, 

ginia, and became Associate irj of thai board In i s( .»"». In 

1896 he was called to the past I the First Baptist Church of 

Newton, Newton Centre, Massachusetts. II<' remained there three 
years and a half. He b b member of the Executive ( '<mi 

mittee <>t* the American Baptist Missionary Union, whose headquar 
ters are in Boston, and was on the examining committee of Newton 
Theological [nstitution during bis pastorate in Newton Centre. 

Doctor Mullins was called to the presidency of the Southern 
Baptist Theological Seminary in June, L899, which position he lias 
held since thai time. He has been President of the Baptist Foung 
People's Union of America, and lias held many other positions <>t" 
trust and honor too numerous to mention. His published works are 
as follows: 

"Why is Christianity True!" "'\' : ■ Axioms of Religion/ 1 * * I ' : i ] ► t i ^ t 
Beliefs, "Commentary on Bphesians and ( '«»'«•-- i : i r i - / * "Freedom and 
Authority in Religion/ 1 "The Christian Religion in It- Doctrinal 
Expression/' "Spiritualism a Delusion/ 1 "Talks on Soul Winning/ 1 
"The Life in Christ." Also many leaflets and tracts on various 
Bubjecta 



REASOA 3 FOR THE MOVEMENT '. ( i 

■pent for the bringing in of God's Kingdom. Bui the 
normal preacher does have a deep solicitude tor the wel- 
fare of his wife and children. Be spends many hours of 
anxious thought on this subject. Frequently he is dis- 
couraged in heaii because he does uol see how in his old 

age his family shall be taken care of. 

At this late day Southern Baptists have determined 

to make provision for their old preachers; hut this pro- 
vision in its best form is upon condition that certain terms 
be complied with. There is a tremendous appeal to the 

young minister to insure his life in the new Annuity 
Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. There are so 
many good reasons why the preacher should insure his life 
that it is difficult to know where to begin. 

I have already indicated one or two of them. I stress 
for a moment the great fact that few preachers are enabled 
to save any money. The Annuity Board and the plan of 
insurance which it offers presents the best possible oppor- 
tunity for life insurance. It is the cheapest insurance and 
the best guaranteed insurance of which I know. It has 
behind it a great denomination. It has a splendid busini 88 
arrangement for the conduct of its affairs. It combines in 
a remarkable way the benevolent feature with the business 
feature; and with the resources which are to be supplied 
to the board by the denomination, the benevolent feature 
will in no sense weaken the business side. At the same 
time, it will enable the business side of the board's work 
• more favorable terms than ordinary insurance com- 
panies. I have been carrying life insurance since I entered 
the ministry. 1 have examined the various features offered 

by our new board. I have been glad to take out a policy 
for myself, although the rate which I must pay is high. 

I do not hesitate tO say it is the be-i offer of insurance 

today which the young minister can possibly obtain. No 
one of the regular insurance companies can compare with it. 
Of course it is open to the preacher to add to his insurance 



92 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

by taking out policies in some of the regular companies if 
he so desires. But in my judgment it will be a mistake for 
any young minister to fail to take out a policy with our 
new board. 

Another reason for taking out insurance is that the 
maintenance of a policy will encourage thrift in the 
preacher, and this is a most excellent result. Every family 
needs to practice thrift in its economic life. To be com- 
pelled to save something regularly has a splendid effect 
upon the general financial system. It encourages one to 
live within one's income; it prevents extravagance; and 
above all, in a preacher it prevents thoughtlessness in 
spending money. Preachers are not likely to indulge in 
extravagance, but thqy are tempted to spend money some- 
times in ways which are not the best A life insurance 

policy will help to keep one's feet in the straight and 

QaiTOW financial path. Insurance produces a splendid 

reaction upon i tonomic habits. 

A further reason is the advantage that comes from 
looking forward to BOmething laid up for a "rainy day." 
The thought that on,' is provided ?"i\ or that one's loved 
ones are provided for if they survive one's self, IS an 

advantage unspeakable. I know of no other means by 

which the preacher can, within the suitable limits of his 
calling, make this provision. Some preachers go into 

speculation, or they carry business enterprises as side lines 

to the ministry. lint while it is a fine thing for a preacher 

to save money and invest it, and to practice thrift 

in any other form, it is fatal to his ministry if the 
preacher's heart becomes absorbed in the making of money. 
lie is sure to l<»sc Interest in the one great concern in life 

if money making becomes dominant with him. Insurance 
saves him from this temptation and enables him to save 
in a safe way. 

One of the best features of saving by insurance is the 

regularity which it encourages. The difficulty in laying up 



REASONS FOR THE MOVEMENT 9i 

lething is usually in the fact that the preacher is rarely 
able to see any money lefl over after legitimate ejcpei 
have been taken care of. An insurance policy will, how- 

r, come within Legitimate expenses, so that it will be 
reckoned with and taken care of along with other legiti- 
mate expenses. This is a very important point. 

One ^( the greatest temptations of the young preacher 

IS to bo found ill his disposition to postpone taking out 

insurance. Of course the argument for him is that tin* 

rlier lie begins the cheaper is the rate. It is a great 

financial blunder to postpone taking out insurance. The 

writer will never forget the first policy of insurance which 
lie took out many years ago in his early ministry. When 
lie compares the rates which he has to pay for new policies 
today witli those early rates which he paid as a young 
man, the contrast is most striking. I feel like appealing 
to every young preacher to begin carrying insurai 

ly as possihle after his school life is completed, and if 
he is able to do so even before, and to keep it up con- 

ntiously to the end. The appeal of the cheap rate is 
irresistible to the man who is thoroughly alive to the situa- 
tion and to the consequences of neglect. 

In (dosing, I wish to record my strong belief in the 
new board. It is the denomination as a whole holding out 
the hand of helpfulness to the preacher. It is saying to 
ery preacher, "You can be self-respecting and provide 
for your old age in a way which will relieve you from 
anxiety." It is saying to every young minister, "Begin 
while you may with a low rate, and the denomination will 
give you a helping hand throughout your ministerial carer, 

! if you live to old age, it will provide a modest annuity 
for jrou in your declining years." 



94 VETERANS OF TEE CROSS 

THE REASON FOR THE SUCCESS OF 
THIS BOARD 

Dr. H. L. Win burn 
Pastor First Baptist Church, Arkadelphia, Ark. 

[DEMOCRACIES are said to be particularly ungrateful. 
■■-' This was said by a Frenchman, I believe, as a com- 
ment on the failure of his country to show appreciation 
in the manner he desired it shown. The Baying, at the 
time, may have been edged with disappointment in politics 
or the emoluments of office, hut there is something of truth 
in the background. 

This principle may account, in some measure, for the 
fact that the great Baptist democracy lias been the last 
major religious body to move in the direction of adequate 
care of the veterans in service who become disqualified, by 
age or infirmity, f^r the Further pursuit of active service 
I have heard young men just entering upon the work of 
the ministry express themselves with some sadness regard- 
ing the prospects for their old age. I never knew one to 

turn back from preaching the gospel l><M*au>e our churches 

seemed selfish and heartless toward older men, hut I have 

known them to suffer in spirit all t lie pangs of a very 
real martyrdom. 

It is well that over and ahove the democracy of earthly 

religious life there sits a King who is not forgetful or 

ungrateful. An impersonal democracy may forget, hut a 

persona] Lord does not. A busy and intent lighting force 
in the field may be, for the moment, unmindful of the 
fallen fighter, but the King over all sees every move and 

plasters every pain with intimate and endless love. 

And now that a fveo, slow moving democracy has taken 
it in hand to provide for the old warrior and his de- 
pendents, it is sure to be well done. A free people always 
act thoroughly when once they are aroused. 




IT. L. WINBUEN 

Ji. L. Winburn was born April It', L877, at Bells, Tennessee, and 
reared by a widowed mother, the mother of seven children. 

Was educated in village grade school; Union University, Jackson, 
Tennessee, graduating in l s, .)<> with degree of Bachelor of Science, 
taking honors during his college days in debating and oratory. 

In July, l s, .* ( .>, he married Miss Lena May Barnes, and to this 
union there have been born four hoys and three girls. 

Be has been pastor, Tullahoma, Tennessee, L899-1900; Taylorville, 
Illinois, 1900-3; First Church, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, 1903-13; Wal- 
nut Street Church, Louisville, Kentucky, 1913-18; again called to 

First Church, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, in L918, where he is now pastor. 

tor Winburn has been the organizer of the Arkansas state 

B, V. I'. T. and was president Of this organization nine years; 

launched the Bummer assembly of Arkansas, of which he was presi- 
* nine years; promoted the firsl unified budgel Bystem among 
a Baptisl ganizations, and got the constitution of the 

convention amended accordingly; member of the Arkansas State 
urdj member of Foreign Mission Board; member Kentucky State 
ird of Missions; president five years of the Kentucky Baptist 
Education Society; editor of the Baptisl Advance of Arkansas, and 
kansas commissioner in the 75 Million Campaign* Dur- 
ing the war he served as camp pastor at ramp Taylor, Louisville, and 
was twice chosen by military authorities as camp lecturer on 'Why 
are in the war. 

Author- of "A Man and II is Money," L915. 



REASONS FOR THE MOVEMENT 9i 

The re&SOIlS for providing annuities and pensions for 

aged preachers and their dependent families Eire very many. 
Bui the mosi forceful onces are clearly seen upon b 
moment 'a thought. 

It is certainly nol a compelling motive to Bay thai some 
men may be b p1 from the work of the ministry because of 
the lack of such provision. The ready reply to this is, if 

I calls to the work of preaching a man who hesitates 

upon financial grounds is probably worth very little to the 
Service anyway. 

Neither is it conclusive to say that the preacher might 
have entered other lines of endeavor and laid up sufficient 
funds to ease his declining years. This is to intimate 
that God's preachers have so far missed their full pos -i- 
bilities as to journey down life's declining way eompanied 
by regrets. I am sure that thousands of white-haired 
veterans of the cross look up from wrinkled faces with eyes 
as lice of regret as any human eyes can possibly be. The 
only regret possible to faithful preachers is that they have 
not done better work for the Savior. 

There seems to me to be tw r o compelling motives back 
of this newly organized movement to provide relief for the 
aged preachers, one of them economic and the other moral — 
and both of them arising within the body of the churches. 

The economic reason for it is, the churches can expect 
better service from preachers whose minds are at ease re- 
rding their children and their old age period. The 
keenest and most refined pain, probably, that ever comes 
to the preacher's heart is when he look's into the dear eyes 
of his little child and wonders whether an education and 
an even chance in life can be had for his own little ones. 
Sudi uncertainties are as gad-flies on a. work horse — are as 

blisters on a pedestrian's heel. They do not stop the faith- 
ful worker, but they greatly reduce his efficiency at times. 
Any reasonable investment that removes these gad-fly won- 
de rings, these blisters of uncertainty, is a paying invest- 



96 YETEEAXS OF THE CEOSS 

ment on the part of those really wanting the work done. 
The moral argument also arises within the body of the 
church. If I take the fresh, young years of vigor, the dew 
of youthful activity, from a worker in my employ, and 
having squeezed him dry of all further ability ruthlessly 
throw him aside, I am exhibiting" moral characteristics that 
do not shed any luster upon myself. Whether I throw him 
aside carelessly, thoughtlessly or maliciously, the result is 
the same. If I have received all that he has to give out, 
the simple law of Belf-respect requires that 1 repay him in 
some adequate way. The giver is always superior to the 
receiver in any unequal exchange. The superiority lies 
not in the plane of the material which Vanishes, but in that 
of the spiritual which endures. It* the churches continue 
to receive ti the preachers have to offer in the way of 

mental and spiritual Bervice and Continue to fail in pro- 
viding adequately for the later years of the preachers, it is 

inevitable that the churches will forever gO conscious of a 
moral inferiority that will eventually destroy their self- 

respect 

So any proper seal to have Christ's Kingdom spread 
rapidly and efficiently and any proper care to safeguard 

the moral stamina of the churches will both be seen to 1)0 
vitally involved in this matter of making adequate pro- 
vision for the declining years of their preachers who are 
faithful. These truths, in turn, appeal to all the religious 
seal and character we have to join in making such pro- 
vision — and in making it adequate. 

The Sunday School Board has done a notable, as well 
as a noble, service in providing the ftrsl hundred thousand 
dollars for this fund. The 75 Million Campaign provides 

tWO and 8 hall' millions of dollars to endow the movement. 

There is wide participation in it. The fund should be, 
and must be, increased to six or *rvo\ millions at as early 
a date as is practicable. This will enable the denomination 

to take adequate care of all the disabled veterans, and will 



/:/•: \<<>\ 9 FOR THE MOVEMENT 

Bolve two problems thai lie al the rool of both intensive 
and extensive development of the kingdom of Christ on 
earth. 



SOME REASONS 

v Tin: Churches Should Care for tut. Enfeebled 
Veterans of the Ministry and the Dependent 

Widows and Helpless Orphans of 
Ministers Who Have Died 

Dr. Henry W. Sweets 
Secretary Presbyterian Ministerial Relief Committee 

IT is not a charity. When the Church ordains a man to 
-*- the work of the ministry, she says: "Separate yourself 
from the sources of worldly gain. You minister to us in 
spiritual things and we will minister to you in material 
things." 

Ex-Governor James A. Beaver, judge of the Superior 
Court of Pennsylvania, says: "A minister, while he lives, 
has no hesitation nor have his legal representatives any 
when he dies in asking a congregation which he has served 
to make good the consideration named in the call under 
which service was rendered." And why? Simply because 
there is an express contract to pay. "When a minister has 
lemnly ordained and thereby adopted by the Church 

and has, by his ordination vows, voluntarily elosed against 

himself the avenues by which men ordinarily acquire a 
competency, and he becomes physically or mentally dis- 
qualified for the proper discharge of the duties of his high 

office, it" after a half century of devoted service he is laid 
aside by the infirmities of age, he has jusl as much right 
morally — aye, and just as much right legally in the truesl 

sense — to claim from the Church such provision at least as 

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98 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

was at the time of his ordination made for those in like 
circumstances. 

The Church cannot afford to break this solemn pledge. 
One of our most successful business men recently wrote: 
"I think we all appreciate to some extent this privilege 
and duty that God lias laid on us, of taking care of His 
aged and infirm .servants and their dependent ones, but I 
am afraid we fail to appreciate what it really means and 
what our individual responsibility is in this matter. Do 

We realize that OUT names are all on t lie bond and OUT 

Master is our endorser! Do we propose to let this note go 
to protest f n As a business proposition, can we afford it? 
"It is an instill to call this charity. It is in the very 
highest a debt, ami Bhould be so honored as an im- 

perative obligation owed to those who use their days of 
strength in the service of our Lord; and do blessing can 
Le expected on a church which allows the veteran soldier 
of Christ to go down to his grave like an inmate of a poor- 
house, or a dependent on charity, looking for a miserable 
pittance, bestowed as on a beggar, for the hare subsistence 

oflil 

The ministers who are on OUT rolls are those who have 
turned their back upon inviting fields and good salaries. 
They have made themselves poor fur the sake of Christ and 

His church. The lonely widows ami orphans have shared 
these privations with those who have fallen in the strife. 
They have Bown the Beed in hard and ofttimes unpromising 

fields, and we today are reaping the splendid harvest. They 
have gone down and laid the foundation deep and Strong 
upon which we are erecting the heaiitifnl temple of OUT 

I tod. In making application \^v a minister who had reached 

the a<_re of eiirhty-one years, and was just laying down his 
work after sixty years of service, One of our stated clerks 
wrote: "We have had no more self-sacrificing minister. 

To my certain knowledge he has organized live of the best 
churches in this presbytery. He and his invalid wife are 




iikxkv ii. s\vi;i:ts 



Henry H. Sweets was born at Elizabethtown, Kentucky, October ♦'•, 
1872. He was the son of Mr. M. and Mrs. Sarah K. Sweets. 

He received his college education at Hampden, Sidney College, 
Virginia and Centre College, Kentucky, where he graduated in L894 
with the B. A. degree. Be graduated from the Kentucky Theological 
Seminary in 1898, 

He organized and was the first pastor of the Lees Memorial Pres 
byterian Church, Louisville, Kentucky. After a pastorate of seven 
and one-half years he was called to become secretary of Christian 
Education and Ministerial Relief of the Presbyterian Church in the 
United States, which office he has held for Bixteen years. 

Be received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the Presby 
terian College of South Carolina and from Centre College and of 
Doctor of Laws from Austin College. Sherman, Texas. 

Be assisted in the organization of the Council of Church Boards 

Education, was the firsl secretary and later the president of this 
organization. Be also assisted in the organization of the Council o\ 
thf 8 taries of the Church Boards of Pensions and Ministerial 
Belief of the United states and Canada and lias been the Secretary 
of this organization since its inception. Bis headquarters are 410 
Urban Building, Louisville, Kentucky. 



REASONS FOR THE M0VEMEN1 

now worn out and are in distressing Deed. 91 In making 

application in behalf of b helpless widow, eighty years of 
. one of our best known ministers wrote i u Ber husband 
was known among us as the man who built twenty-five 
churches during his ministry." 

The Farmer cares for the faithful old horse which 

rved him well. The house dog is still fed from his 
master's table, even after he is too old to give his accus- 
tomed watchfulness. Many of the corporations of the land, 
"soulless corporations/ 1 we call them, are setting aside 
vast sums of money from which they are pensioning those 
who have assisted them in gaining their wealth. "Doth 
God take thought for axon!" And shall not His Church, 
which professes to have His spirit, minister to the distress- 
ing needs of God's aged saints who have denied themselves 
in the days of their strength to care for the poor, to seek 
the lost, to relieve the sorrow, to lead all to a blessed hope 
in God? 

It is not an expedient thing for the Church to let her 
worn-out servants come to pinching need and humiliating 
poverty. The General Assembly at Greenville declared: 
"This is the day of opportunity. If the church does not 
promptly not only will the cause of ministerial relief 
suffer, but also the supply of candidates for the ministry 
will be seriously affected. If the father lies wounded on 
the field of battle uncared for, can we expect the son to 
fill his place in the depleted ranks of the regiment V* And 
where could you find a missionary, either at home or abroad, 
laboring on an insufficient salary, who, should he know 
that if he fall by the way, the loving arms of the church 
would be placed beneath him, or if he be called to his 
reward his wife and his little ones would be cared for by 
the mother church, would not have more of heart and 
earnest zeal to put into his exacting labor? 

The loneliness of these brave old warriors, shut up oft- 
times within the four walls of their rooms, and the depend- 



100 VETERANS OF THE CEOSS 

ence of the widows and orphans who have shared the priva- 
tions of those whose tired bodies rest in <4 the bivouac of 
the dead/' is a pathetic, mute appeal. They are no lag- 
gards. Gladly would they be again in the forefront of the 
battle. But God has shut them in. Added to their weak- 
ness and pain of body is the thought, which sometimes 
must come, that they are forgotten — orphaned by the 
mother church. Paul must have felt something of this 
when he wrote to the young Timothy: "Do thy diligence 
to come shortly unto inc. for Pemas hath forsaken me. 
Only Luke is with me. Take Mark and bring him with 
thee." Before he closed that short letter, for fear there 
might be delay, be added: "Do thy diligence to come 
before wint 

It is of the very essence of Christianity. "Pure reli- 
gion and nndefiled before God and the Father is this: to 

visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to 

keep himself onspotted from the world." "To plead for 
these needy <>; | begging. It is counsel to do right, 

counsel that the people nerd, counsel for tin 1 lark of which 
the church is daily forfeiting the precious blessings of duty 
done. Therefore, to our brethren of the ministry, we would 
say: Shako off your false modesty. Help the church to do 
right. Vim know that many of your aged brethren are 
suffering through a neglect for which the people are not 
responsible, since thqy do not know the Tacts, it is in your 
power to make the fads known, and so to help your breth- 
ren. Therefore, take these words to heart: "Whoso seetfa 
his brother have need, and Bhutteth up his compassion 
from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him!" 

The support of the ministers of the gospel is not a mat- 
ter left to the whims of men. It is according to the divine 

Order. He means that QO warring bishop shall be entan- 
gled in affairs of this life and to prevent this He made 

abundant provision for the Levites, set apart to the service 
of the sanctuary. "Having no iuheritauce among the 



REASONS FOB THE MOVEMENT L01 

children of Israel thqy nevertheless w< d from any 

possible want from cradle to grave, and their widows and 
orphans after them. The abundant tithes and offeric 
the levitical cities and their raburbs, and the sacredness of 
their calling, assured to all those who stood before the 

Lord to minister to Him the most ample, continuous, and 

unfailing supply of all their wants." God deck 

through the Apostle Paul: "Do ye not know that they 
which minister about holy things live of the things of the 
temple? And they which wait at the altar are partakers 
with the altar? Even so hath the Lord ordained that tlmy 
which preach the gospel should live of the gospel." Time 
and again God said to Israel, "Take heed that thou for- 
sake not the Levite so long as thou livest in the land." 
rd, God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget ! Lest 
we forget ! 

We cannot now see Him with our eyes, or minister to 
llis bodily needs, but He has so identified Himself with 
each one of His disciples that He is present at all times. 
He declares: "Whoso shall receive one such little child 
in my name, receiveth Me." "Then shall the King say 
unto them on His right hand, Come, ye blessed of my 
Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the 
foundation of the world: for I was an hungered, and ye 
gave me meat; I was thirsty and ye gave me drink; I was a 
stranger and ye took me in; naked and ye clothed me; I 
tk, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came 
unto me. Then shall the righteous answer Him, saying: 
Lord when saw we thee an hungered, and fed theel or 
thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, 
and took thee in? or naked and clothed thee? Or when 
Baw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? And 
the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily T say 
unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least 
of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." 



102 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

"And vre believe Thy word, 

Though dim our faith may be, 
Whatever for Thine we do, Lord, 

We do it unto Thee." 

Our Savior taught by His life as well as by the words 
of grace that flowed from His lips. He has left a striking 
example in His care for His own Mother. He is on the 
cross enduring all the Buffering and pain of such a death. 
The Son of Man is dying for the sons of men. As He looks 
out over the vast crowd assembled, His eyes fall upon Mary, 
His Mother, as the sword pierces through her own spirit. 
He sees the days of Loneliness and want that must come to 

her. Hear those tender words, "Woman, behold thy son*" 

To John, He says, "Behold thy Mother. M And he took 
her to his own home from that hour. If the Savior, in the 

anguish and pain of death, could thus recognize His 
Mother's need and make provision for it, how much more 
.should our churches, in these days of their wonderful 
material, prosperity, care, even with lavish hands, Tor th< 
who, in an especial sense, are the mothers and the brothers 

and the sisters of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ t 



HELPING THOSE THAT HELPED 

Blizabetb X. Ban 
Secretary \V. M. U., North Carolina 



T^EUT. 10: 8, 9. At that tim the Lord separated the 
U tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of tin covenant of the 
Lard, to stand befon the Lord to minister auto him, and to 
bless in his name, auto tins day. Wherefore Levi hath no 
part nor inheritance icith his brethren; the Lord is his 
inheritance, according as the Lord thy (iod promised him. 




ELIZABETH NORWOOD BRIGGS 

born and reared in Raleigh, North 
Carolina. Parents, Thomas Benry and Sarah Grandy Briggs. 
Educated in public school and St. Mary's School of Raleigh, 
Baptized in early girlhood into membership of First Church of 
Raleigh, being the fifth generation to hold membership in this 
church, since its organization in I s L2, her great-grandfather having 
been a charter member and its first deacon. Has been loyal in her 
church work, having membership in its various organizations, and 
teacher and superintendent for some years in the Primary Depart- 
ment of the Sunday Bchool. Hns been superintendent of Sunbeam 
work for State of North Carolina, a position Bhe has held contin- 
ily Bince a Bchoolgirl. 

• • years has prepared Sunbeam Program in "Our Mi- 
Fields" nuw Royal Service). Edited Toung People's Department in 
Some and Foreign Field; at request of Sunday School Board wrote 
"Teacher's Book/ 5 for first year primary In gTaded series. 



RE ISON& FOR TEE MOVEMENT 103 

The Hebrew economy was in advance of anything thai 
lias thus far characterized our churches. The Levites, Bel 
apart to the service of the sanctuary, were provided for on 

b magnificent scale. Having no proper inheritance among 
the children of Israel, they nevertheless were assured from 
any possible want from cradle to grave, and their widows 
and orphans after them. The abundant tithes and offer- 
ings, the levitieal cities and their BUburbs, and the snered- 

38 of their calling, assured to all those who stood before 

tlie Lord to minister to Him, the mosl ample, continuous 
and Unfailing supply of all their wants. 

II. 

Num. 18: 24. But the tithes of the children of Israel, 
which they offer as an heave offering unto the Lord, I 
II WE GIVEN TO THE LEVITES 'to inherit; therefore 
I hare said unto them, among the children of Israel they 
shall have no inheritance. 

The veteran is entitled to rest, even when his strength 
remains. The tenderest of care should be his when his 
strength has gone with his years. 

III. 

Num. 35 : 2. Command the children of Israel, that they 
give "nto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession 
cities to dwell in; and ye shall give ateo unto the Levites 
suburbs for the cities around about them. 

There are men who see to it that even the aged, worn- 
out beast of burden is provided for. Shall we be found 1 

dderate of human beings? 

IV. 

Dent. 12: 10. Taki heed to thyself that thou forsakr 
the Levite as long as thou livest }ipon the earth. 
all we pension the soldier, and fail to provide tor the 

preacher? 



10-1 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

V. 

Deut. 14: 27. And the Lcvitc that is within thy gates; 
thou shall not forsake him; for he hath no part nor 
inheritance with thee. 

Queen Elizabeth requested a merchant to go abroad on 
her service, and when he mentioned that his own business 
would be ruined, she replied, "You mind my business and 
I will mind yours. M 

VI. 

1 Cor. 0:1:], 11. Do you not know that they which min- 
ister about holy things live of the things of the temple? 
And they which wait at the altar are partaker* with the 
altar? /' hath tin Lord ordaiiud that they wliidi 

pre<uh tin ild lire of the gospel. 

We believe God never meant the place of a minister to 
be ordinarily one of ample means or elegant luxury; but 
lie dors mean that do minister should be entangled in 

affairs of this life; and to prevent this, it is more impor- 
tant than any oilier one thing to assure every servant of 
I that, whatever Belf-denia] may be incident to the days 

of his actual and active labor, when the day of work is over 

he shall not suffer want for the necessities of life; or, if 

prematurely called hence, shall not leave a wife and chil- 
dren to be Cast On the charity of the very church he lias 
Belf-denyingly served. 

VII. 

1 Tim. 5: 18. For tin ScriptUTi s<iith, Thou shalt not 
muzzk the OX that treadi th out the corn. And, The laborer 
is worthy of his reward. 

Many a man of the world would provide for a faithful 
old dog or the family horse better than the churches pro- 
vide for those who have served their Master and humanity 
faithfully until infirmity beset them. 



REASONS FOB THE MOVEMENT 106 

VIII 
Prov, 3: 27. Withhold not good from them to whom 

it is due, when it is in the pOWt r of tlnnr hand to do it. 

To neglect anyone who needs our help is to neglect 
Christ Himself. 

IX 

Matt. 2C> : fi, 7. Now when Jesus was in Bethany in tin 
ho«s> of Simon the leper, there came unto him a woman 
having an ALABASTER BOX of very precious ointment, 
and poured it on his head. 

\)o not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and ten- 
derness sealed until your friends are dead. Fill their lives 
with its sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while 
their hearts can lie thrilled and made happier by them. 
The kind things you mean to say when they are gone, say 
before they go. The flowers you mean to send for their 
coffins. Bend to brighten and sweeten their homes. 



THE RETIRED MINISTER AND THE HONOR OF 
THE CHURCH 

Dr. J. M. Dawson, 
Pastor First Baptist Church, Waco, Texas 

"FT must be confessed that if the churches have been 

■*■ derelict in the care of their ministers it is due in some 
to the sin of omission on the part of their pastors. 

These preachers have not declared the whole counsel of 

G <1. but out of false modesty have neglected to press what 

the Scriptures teach about ministerial support. An exam- 
ination of the tiles of the leading religious journals of any 

great library will reveal the fact that in fifty years there 



106 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

has scarcely been the slightest mention of this subject by 
ministers themselves. How many sermons has any one ever 
heard on the subject ? 

Laymen have sometimes been stirred to the quick in 
conscience and have spoken out, but even they have not 
always been mindful of the situation. It has been left 
chiefly to the secular press, in recognition of social justice, 
to urge this matter. Right well has it done so in some 
instances as this quotation from the Literary Digest of 
August 81, 1918, under title of "The Laborer Is Worthy of 
His Hire." will strikingly show: 

"The standing record of clergymen's salaries through- 
out this great rich nation is a pitiful shame, and belies the 
real heart and fairness of the American people. The 

average salary of clergymen in ten of the largest denomina- 
tions is only $793 a year. What trade or business would 
tolerate such a condition 1 The minister of your church is 

a human being like the reel of 08, and he is feeling the 

pressure of the increased cost of living jusl as we do. But. 

no government decree has raised his salary. No corpora- 
tion or trade union Btands back of him. He does not go on 

B strike, lie simply trusts his people and works faithfully 
for them seven days a week and many nights, and Strug- 
gles to look respectable, and pay his hills, and perform the 
miracles expected of him, often for less than the salary of 
the young girl stenographer, who teaches in his Sunday 

School, or the \ Of the man who lays the sidewalk in 

front of his church/ 1 

While there are excellent exceptions, yet it is a fact that 

in the average parsonage poverty smites the most delicate 

spirits and deprivation curtails the moel meritorious talent, 

and hedges the most self-abnegating lives lived anywhere on 

this earth. They live " \\>v the well-being of mankind." I f 

our ministers could be assured from the biting pinch of 
poverty by a moderate pension at the end of honorable 

service it would take away the most harassing worries, it 




JOSEFTT MARTIN DAWSOX 

Joseph Martin Dawson was bom June 21, 1^79, in Ellis County, 
near Waxahaehie, Texas. His lather was Martin J. and mother 
Laura F. Dawson. 

Educated in the public schools of Italy, Texas, and Baylor 
University. From Baylor, he holds two degrees, A. B. and D. J). 

Ordained to the ministry in 1900 by the First Baptist Church 
of Waco. 

Established Baylor Lariat and Western Evangel, also South- 

itern Theological Review; editor of Baylor Bound-up and Baptist 
Standard. 

Baa beer pastor of following churches: First Church, Hillsboro, 
L908-12; First Church, Temple, 1912-14; now pastor First Church, 
ace 1914. 

II." married Miss Willie Turner of Dallas in l ( .M>s, and to this 

union there have been born live children, Alice Elizabeth. Leighton 
ph Turner, Ralph Matthew, and Donna Boocn. 
Member of the Borne Mission Board; Texas state Executive 
. '• i : Board of Trustees, Baylor University, and Hoard of Trustees 

<>f Baptist Standard; Board of Trustees OI Central Texas Baptist 
Sanitarium. 



REASONS FOR THE MOVEMENT I fl 

would increase the efficiency of those who thus Labor, and 
undoubtedly il would assisl in "calling out the called." 

Certain orders of the Catholic priesthood once took the 
vow of absolute poverty, becoming mendicants and sup- 
pliants. Bui who among us will Bay this is Scriptural or 
desirable 1 If it is to be followed practically by non- 
support or inadequate provision, will it not finally entail 
celibacy among preachers or else inevitable disgrace in the 
attempt to care for a family? 

It is said Francis of Assisi loved a rare and radiant 
young woman, but in choosing the life of a monk gave up 
marriage. One night when the snow was deep on the 
ground his companions saw him rise and go out into the 
garden and construct snow images of wife and children. 
For an hour he sat in ecstasy of contemplation of the joys 
of companionship and love of family. Then remembering 
his vow he arose, kissed the cold images a reverent farewell 
and went sadly back to the cloister. 

This scene must be re-enacted or ministers with fami- 
lies must face disgrace unless the churches supply pro- 
visions of support for these servants. A discredited min- 
istry means the lowering of the whole tone of Christianity, 
and a consequent arrest of its conquering march. 

In the fields of soldiery and seamanship, civil service, 
art, science, and literature, society has been granting pen- 
sions to its disabled or superannuated servants ever since 
the Roman era. More recently the teaching profession has 
received attention at this point, especially in America 
where the Carnegie Foundation and more lately the 
Rockefeller Foundation have emphasized this great philan- 
thropy. The provision has been made from the motive of 

gratitude for the greal service rendered, with the motive of 
in part compensating for the low salaries received during 

the period of service, from the motive of promoting 
efficiency, and with the purpose of attracting desirable 
workers into these fields. 



108 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

If ever these motives were in force with respect to the 
men of any calling, surely they should be operative in 
the case of the ministry. But we do not need to find an 
argument in history and experience. The Scriptures them- 
selves, the very law of the minister's calling, by dear, 
< gplicil statement, and also by inescapable inference put 
the duty of caring for disabled and superannuated servants 
of the most High definitely on the chttrcl 

r do tl make the provisions for the 

minister's support an option or a grace; they make it a 

matter of honor. The seventy sent forth by the Master 

were no; to be craven I inhospitable. Paul, work- 

ing r in the establishment of the new faith, vol- 

untarily renounced his personal rights, but stoutly made 
duty plain I i the churches and carefully instructed the 

young ; ITS as to What they mighl expert from the 

church* . 

"If any provide not f^r his own, specially for those of 

his own household, he hath denied the faith and is worse 
than an infidel. M (1 Timothy ^-.$.) The principle here 
enunciated, though applied to the families of dependent 
servants of the church, I think will apply to the church 

B whole. Such provision is a matter of Christian honor. 

To Tail of it brings the church to practice a denial of the 
faith in its fundamental principles and to appear in the 
lighl of having less gratitude and a smaller sense of justice 

than unbelievers in their attitude toward those Who have 

served well or unselfishly in secular callings. Christianity 
is thus reproached, discredited and suffers terribly. 

The annuity plan reflects lt« at honor upon the denomi- 
nation, it ])]• to take over the proper care of our 

disabled Or aged ministers from alien foundations or from 

the state and to lo.»k after our own household. It is relieved 

from the unwisdom of a free pension system which in \\< 

ration by the nation in reference to Boldiers in other 

days was little short of scandalous, certainly Open to 



REASONS FOR THE MOVEMENT 109 

severe criticism, h secures the active, Bcli-respecting 
Operation of those who are to be beneficiaries, a thing 
quite indispensable. It is a generous provision, expressive 
of justice, wisdom, love and gratitude. It is a destiny- 
determining plan, God Bpeed if and make it glorious in 
the sight of men I 

THE PASTOR DOING BUSINESS ON THE SIDE 

Dr. l. K. Scarborough 
President Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary 

l~T is very clearly taught in the Word of God thai one 

■■" called to preach should give himself entirely to the work 
of the ministry, and should not he hampered by outside 
secular and worldly matters. For the preacher to give 
himself over in full separation and consecration to the 
tasks of the Kingdom of God is far hetter in every way. 
If he has secular matters on his hands to divide his time 
and demands to tax his energy and strength, it is evident 
that he will give that much less time to the work of his 
higher calling. 

Money making for the ministry is demoralizing on his 
physical, mental and spiritual power, lie cannot study as 
he should. He will get mixed up and involved in worldly 
matters in such a way as greatly to hinder his testimony 
and limit his power. The work of the ministry is itself 
taxing and demands the full limit strength of every man 
c'dled into this service. I am sure that in most c\cvy case 
where a man is called to preach it is his deep purpose and 
constant hunger of soul to give himself entirely to the min- 
istry. It is not by choice that many ministers go into side 
lies to make money. The great mass of the ministry is 
free from worldly motives and purposes in this matter. In 
■ they have gone into side issues to 

make money outside of the ministry, they have been com- 
pelled by financial reasons against their wills to do so. 



110 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

They have felt the necessity for looking after their fami- 
lies, preserving their integrity, and having money to use in 
the Kingdom of God. This is true in most cases. 

The facts are that preachers, considering their experi- 
ence in business affairs and the limited amount of money 
they handle, and the time they give to secular concerns, are 
the best business men in the world. The salaries of the 
ministry has the lowest average of almost any vocation 
among men. The average preacher's salary, even in these 
times of high prices, is less than other callings, and yet 
most of them have large families. Most of them give more 
than other men proportionately. They are compelled to 
dress as well as the average, or above the average, in their 
congregations. The tacts are that on these small salaries 

the ministry h,. .-11 educated children, as well dressed 

families, as good average of domestic provision, are as 
hon< "t their obligations as promptly, and take care 

of their name as well, if not better, than most men. Nearly 
all of them live sacrificial lives. There is very little 
extravagance found in the homes ^f the ministers. They 
give to Qxery cause. They do their best to educate their 
children and give them a good start in the world. It is a 
marvel of economy and busine88 sense how the ministry 
bear their responsibilities, do the work they do, turn out as 
well educated children as they do, pay their debts as 
promptly as they do — in view of their small salaries. All 

honor is here paid to the honesty, integrity, economy, 
sacrificial spirit and heroic, consecrated living on the part 
of the great mass of tl 1 ministry. 

There are three genera] causes which lead ministers 
either into dishonesty or failure to pay their debts, or into 

money-making schemes on the side: 

1. The money heart Borne preachers because of fasci- 
nating booms in various speculating business enterprises: 
because of the many schemes for getting rich quick preva- 
lent throughout the land; because of their association with 




LEE RUTLAND SCAEBOEOUGH 



Lee Rutland Scarborough was born in Colfax, La., July 4, l s 7<», 
the son of George W. ami Martha Elizabeth (Rutland) Scarborough. 
The rarly days of his life were spent on a ranch in Texas. He re- 
ceived his education from Baylor University, graduating in l s i»_, with 
the degree of A. B.; Yale University, 1896, A. B.; student of Southern 
Baptisi Theological Seminary, Louisville, L899-1900; degree of D.D. 
con toned upon him by Baylor University, 1908; member of Phi 
Beta Kappa. 

Doctor Scarborough married Miss Mary Warren of Abilene, 
February 4, L900. Ho was ordained to the ministry in 1896. He 
was pastor of the First Church, Cameron, from L896-99 ; the First 
Church, Abilene, li»<ii-s ; was teacher in the Southwestern Bap- 
tist Theological Seminary from 1908-15; ami has been president of 
this great institution Bince L915. Ho L known throughout the South 
in raising money for our denominational institutions. He has col- 
ted funds for the erection of two large buildings for Simmons 

College, Abilene, and for two buildings for the seminary. lit 1 was 

the general dire, -tor for the Baptisi 75 Million Campaign, and under 
his leadership Southern Baptists subscribed over $90,000,000. 

He is a member of the Executive Board of Missions ami Educa- 
tion of the Baptist Convention; a trustee of Simmons College; mem- 
ber of the Board of Directors of the Baptisi standard. Doctor 

- trborough i> the author of the following books: "Recruits for 
World Conquest" and •"With Christ After the Lost." 



REASONS FOB THE MOVEMEb I ill 

some good friend who ba successful in business and desires 
the minister to make some money on the side and leads him 
into Borne speculation, thus getting the preacher tied np in 

the world's ways; the money hearl grows and he g 
further into business. The money hearl is a dangerous 
possession i\n- the minister. In almost every case where the 
preacher has been addicted to the money-loving spirit and 

has indulged Ins ambitions, he has gone down and down out 
the ministry and has failed in business. The ship- 
wrecks along this line are tragic indeed. 

2. Another cause, not very prevalent among the min- 
istry, for side lines of money-making is an extravagant 
family. Some have married women who have been accus- 
tomed to luxury and have known nothing of the sacrifices 
of the minister's home, and when she comes into his home 
she finds that economy and sacrifice are necessary to make 
ends meet ; this she does not know 7 how to do and some- 
times, with a restless spirit, resents the demands on her. 
Sooner or later, she will bring the preacher helplessly in 
debt, or crowd him into business life. There are a great 
many ministerial scrap-heaps made from this cause. God 
pity the preacher who is mismatched in his domestic 
relationship. 

3. But the main and most prevalent cause for side 
lines in the ministry and for the charges of ministerial 
dishonesty is found in the poor and inadequate compensa- 
tion given to preachers in the service of God. This is one 
of the tragedies of tragedies, that preachers are .so meagerly 

paid for the services they render. Their contribution for 

mighty civilization and constructive work in the upbuild- 
ing of the world is immeasurable and incalculable, and yet 
they are the poorest paid men in the active service of 
humanity. High standards of education and morals, and 
comfortable living are demanded of them. Unless they 
spend years in extensive preparation and study, and unless 
they dress and keep up their families at a good high 



11? VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

average, the people do not want them as pastors and 
workers, and yet the salaries they pay them are very poor. 
In almost every case of ministerial defalcation, or where 
preachers have gone into Becular business, if traced back to 
the original cause it will be found that pooi- and inadequate 
salaries have been the cause. This matter should be 
remedied. Preachers should be better paid and more 
promptly paid, bo as to relieve the necessity for many of 
them going into side lines of secular work in order that 
they may give their entire time to the work of the gospel 
ministry. It is a matter of greal joy thai the attention of 
ilie people is being called to this matter new and move- 
ments are ►! to remedy it. The world will never 
know how much it lost in keeping the Apostle Paul from 
wasting his time in tent-making, ami preventing tens of 
thousands of noble n - from having to farm or do 
other things on the side to take care of their families. The 
i Christianity is unspeakable and immeasurable. 
The ministry should have an adequate compensation Tor 
the following reasons \ 

1. That they may properly support their families and 

educate their children. 

2. Thai they may have full time for study and 

preparation without the worry and anxiety of financial 
pressure. 

3. Thai they may he able to supply themselves with 

boo) and expenses to gel the advantage of 

inspirational and educational gatherings and conferen 

•l. Thai they may hav.- sufficienl above their expenses 
give to the Lord's cause proportionately and satisfac- 
torily. They need to have room to develop the liberal Spirit 
and properly lead their people. 

5, In order to have money to pay life insurance and 

e up a little fund for the rainy day and for old age. 

(if course this fund should he widely and carefully used 

and husbanded. The preacher as much as anybody else is 



REASONS FOR THE MOVEMENT LIS 

entitled to compensation to keep him from the poorhouse 
and starvation and the embarrassments and limitations ol 
poverty in his old age. The cause of Christianity will 
suffer through the limitations 61 its ministerial leadership 
until an adequate arrangement lias been made to provide 
for tlu> above supplies tor the ministry. 

It is exceedingly dangerous for a preacher to go into 
any Borl of ovular business where his time and attention 

and heart will Ik* divided and his testimony crippled. It' 

lie p>es into any form of speculative business he is headed 
toward the rocks. If he goes into secular work his 
ministry will be crippled. It will show in his prayer, in 
his preaching, in his Kingdom programs, and will tre- 
mendously tell in his power with God. If he specula' 
sooner or later he will go on the rocks and in the scrap- 
heap, and in most cases he will carry cknvn with him the 
business in which he goes. Considering the history of the 
ministry, it looks as if God will not let a called minister 
succeed in business life. The exceptions are rare and far 
between. The demonstrations of this fact are many and 
tragical. The preacher should stay out of all busini 

sept that of the Lord Jesus, and the churches and the 
denomination should see that he has an adequate compen- 
sation while he attends to the Lord's business. "The 
laborer is worthy of his hire" is the outstanding statement 
of God concerning the ministry. Until the ministry is paid 
an adequate compensation, Christ's people should provide 
a fund for the aged and infirm preachers. The ministry 
and the laymen in the churches should throw themselves 
full length in providing a large and worthy fund for the 
care of preachers who have worn themselves out on poor 

compensation in the service of God, They are worthy. 

Their families are left helpless in want and thrown on the 

charity of the world. The Government provides for the 

men who light its battles, and Christ's cause should take 
care of the men who tight the battles of Christianity. We 



114 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

should set up such a worthy fund as to relieve the young 
and middle-aged ministers from the awful nightmare of 
fear of an old age in helpless poverty. From the day a 
man surrenders to preach he ought to be encouraged by 
the fact that his people appreciate him and love him and 
will reward his sacrifices and unselfish life by some ade- 
quate provision for him when he is old, or if lie falls 
cripple and infirm before the battle ends. There ought not 
to be any just reason for any minister consecrated and 
called, to enter any side lines to make money. God's plan 
is that His minister be adequately compensated while he 
serves and comfortably cared for when he is helpless. The 
people who do not live up to God's program sin against 
God and the ministry. 



THE PREACHER'S GETHSEMANE 

Dr. Albi ;:t EL Bond 
Editorial Secretary, Education Board, Southern Baptist 

iventioo 

THE shadows of the olive trees fell Over the heart of the 
Nazarene. A quiel prayer-hour was sought, hut the 
experience brought to Him who prayed agony of soul. 
Beaded blood stood on face to show how deep was the 
distress of bouL 

The Blaster Preacher had come to his Bhadows. The 
preacher of every generation may follow in his steps. 

.Many really come to share with Him a similar dark hour. 

Qethsemane was the rapreme soul-hour of the Master 

Preacher. His victory was won in Belf-dedication to the 
will of God that might lead to utter Belf-giving. Worn 
with the Struggle of the years, faithful in the delivery of 

the searching and life-inviting message, finished with the 
mission of the me sender of truth, the preacher may ffl 




ALBERT RICHMOND BOND 



Albert Richmond Bond was born in Wilson County, Tenn< 
March 9, 1874. His parents are James Houston and Mary Cason 
Bond. Both lines of ancestry were pioneers in the Baptist life of 
Tennessee. Prom the age of three he was reared in Nashville, Ten- 
Dessee. He attended the city public BchoolSj graduating from the 
high Bchool in i v, .'_. He entered the University of Nashville, Pea- 
body College, leived thi - of B, A. and M. A. in I s !*"'. 
He has the distinction of being the only student to receive the 
bachelor and master's degrees at the same time. He spent three 
years at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ken- 
tucky, receiving in l s '.» s the d Th.M., having also taken five 
lies. Il<- Berved one year as department editor and 
one year as editor-in-chief of the Seminary Magazine, in 1919 he 
received the I*. I*. from tin 4 University of Florence, 
Alabama. 

On December 20, 1898, he was married to Ruth Pugh, of Clarks- 
ville, Tennessee, who was graduated with the degree of 6, A., from 
the University of Nashville, Peabodj College, in i s, .i.~-, and who 
taught English literature in high schools until her marriage. Mrs. 
Bond was b frequent contributor to religious periodicals and also 
published Beveral Bible Btudy handbooks. She died June 6, L914. 
Of this marriage was born b Bon, Richmond Pugh Bond, who, having 
completed th- it the Wallace Preparatory School for Boys, en 

i Vainlni.il! University, from which he received the B. A. degree 
in June, 1920. He will receive his M. A. degree from Harvard 
University in June, 1921, having made English his specialty. 

Doctor Bond was ordained in 1895 by the Central Baptist Church, 
Nashville, of which I 1, I L Lofton was pastor. In the ordaining 

council were, among others, I' I A. Lofton, J. M. Frost, I. J, 
Van Ness, John ( ). Bust, A. J, Barton. 

He has been pastor of the following churches: Magnolia, Brook- 
haven, Clarksdale, Aberdeen, Mississippi; West Point, Marie ta, 
Georgia; Price Hill, Cincinnati; Pembroke, Kentucky; and Franklin, 
Tenne 

Upon the death of Dr. E, B. Polk, he becan litor of the 

Baptist and Reflector, Nashville, May I, 1917, continuing as Buch 
until May l. 1920. On Angusl l. he became editorial secretary of 
the Education Board, Southern Baptist Convention, Birmingham, 
Alabama. 

Author of 'The Master Preacher A Study of the Homiletics of 
Jesus/ 1 published in 1911. This is the pioneer book in this particular 
field. He has also been for years ;i frequent contributor to the 
various religious periodicals of Southern Baptists. 



/;/: [SONS FOB THE MOVEMENT LIB 

the time when he do longer has the ministries ol grace 
because ol his broken health or shoulders bowed with the 
weight of the years, To him such cm hour is a real Geth- 
Bemane, and fortunate indeed is lie who in this supreme 
soul-crisis can follow the Blaster Preacher in Baying "nol 
my will, but thine, I tod, be done." 

"Into the woods my Blaster went," led by the Spirit 
who should give him an experience of unreached loneliness, 
lie had come to his own and found unwelcome hearts. He 
had brought to the Garden His inner circle of His trusted 
friends only to find that they failed Him. He walked in 
the appointed path of a great task, alone and lonely. Often 
misunderstood, rarely appreciated for his true worth, the 
preacher of today, as the preacher of yesterday, walks the 
path of duty with a heart of loneliness. He comes at last 
to the end of his way often discouraged, but yet holding 
a victorious faith, conscious that he has done well, though 
in a limited way, a great task. His future may be thick 
with the shadows of the Calvary because of his infirm figure 
or his disease-broken body. Like sleeping friends of the 
Garden, those whom he had guided to the Christ and to 
whom he had ministered in holy things have ears too dull 
to hear his needs and eyes beholden to his wants. Poor 
servant of God, isolated by his misfortune unto a loneliness 
that is not broken. 

The Master Preacher rode the crest of the tidal wave of 
popular favor. AVidespread enthusiasm had sought to 
diadem him with Israel's glory, but that was before he had 
come to the Garden. lie now finds the bitter opposition of 
foes reaching its climax in the hour-near betrayal at the 
hands of a former friend and will soon discover that not 
even the most boastful will walk as a companion to his mis- 
fortune. In such a story one feels that he is telling afresh 
the tragedy of many a preacher. Gone are the crowds that 
once lingered to catch his words of wisdom and grace, 
departed and departing arc those who were once eager to 



116 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

supply every physical comfort — the preacher turns back- 
ward his gaze to have his present tragedy remind him of 
departed glories. 

Entitled to the riches of heaven, the Master Preacher 
borrowed even his night shelter. He came to his end witli 
no heritage to leave bat that of his life-giving power. The 
preacher of today, as of yesterday, often conies to his 
embittered end with no heritage of lands and goods for the 
child of his life, hut with only the heritage of spiritual 
riches. Disabled in body or infirm of age, he heroines 
almost an object of unwilling charity from those who have 
benefited by the sacrifice of his years. Southern Baptists 
must blush with shame at each recollection of how they 
have lefl the heroes of faith to suffer the indignities of 
near-Starvation. There lias been no sufficient provision to 
care for him who was bound by an unwritten custom to the 

law of poverty. At lasl an awakening conscience begins to 
stir among us and we are reaching out to the shelf-placed 
preacher, wed and infirm, or young ami broken-down, 

with hands that assure a respectable support for the 
declining ye 



\oT CHARITY, BUT DEBT 

I >::. W. W. LaHDSUM 

Pn Philosophy, Bethel Collq 

"P.at let him that ifl taught in the w<>nl communicate unto 
him that tcadieth in all good things."— Gal. 6:6. 

IT is lawful to learn even from an enemy. Ours was an 
enemy shrewd, plausible, but kern and cutting, who a 
few years ago wrote an article entitled "The Great 
American Cheap Sect." It appeared in a popular maga- 
zine. Under the thin guise of compliment for our economy, 
it stigmatized our parsimony as a denomination. 




WILLIAM WARREN LANDRUM 



William Warron Lamlnim, A. D., D, P., LL.D., wifl born in 
Macon, Georgia, January I s , [853 ; -on of Rev. Dr. Sylvanus and 
Lizzie Warren Landrum; baptized in First Church, Savannah. (mor- 
gia, March 25, L866. Educated at Mercer University, hfacon, 

rgia, ami graduated from Brown University, Providence. Rhode 
[sland, in L872. Passed two years in the Southern Baptist Theologi- 
cal Seminary, then located at Greenville, South Carolina. 

Twice married. First wife, [da Louise Dunster, descendant in 
eighth generation of Benry Dunster, first president of Harvard 
Universit 9 ond wife, Lottie Baylor, only daughter of Gen. 
\v. 8. II. Baylor, killed in second battle of Manassas. six living 
children, all of whom were baptized before twelve years of ag 

ained in May. 1^7 1. at Jefferson, Texas, during sessions of 
the Southern Baptist Convention. Ordination sermon preached by 
John A. ordaining presbyt< -•-•'! of John A. 

Broadus, 11. Allen Tupper, William Carey Crane, William Williams, 
I ). < ;. I taniel, and Bj Ivai b 1 «andrum, 

r rst pastorate at First Church, Shreveport, Louisiana; after two 
ailed tor' 1, i th, a i a, thence t<» Second 

Church, Richmond, Virginia; from there to First Church, Atlanta, 
Georg a. During a ministry of less than thirteei yean this church 
colonized four times and five houses "t' worship were erected, includ- 
ing the • cture of the First Church. Following this 
pastorate, Broadway Church, Louisville, Kentucky. At present pas 
tor of Russelville, Kentucky, Church, and professor of philosophy in 
ft the] Colli ( 

Degr< 3 inferred, D, D., by Washington Lee University, ami 
also by Brown University: LL.D., by University of Georgia. 

Member of Foreign Mission B member ami one- 

time president of Borne Mission Board; now member of Education 
Board ami of the Executive Board of the General Association of 
Kentucky; president of Baptist Historical Society of Kentucky; 
trust •• n College; first rice-president <>f Board of Trust 

of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; member Board of Direc 
tors of Western Recorder; member of Executive Committee of the 
Baptist World Alliance. I- a member of the patriotic organisation, 
Son- of American Revolution, being the andson of Rev, Miller 

1 1 1< isoe, an officer of the Revolution and a pioneer Baptist preacher in 
after the ft •. ..i ,tion. 



RE ISONS FOR THE MO] EMENT 1 LI 

In a diplomatic diatribe the writer made these points: 

Baptists are tlu* great American cheap sect Mark how 
they do a big business on a small capital, getting large re 

turns On a minimum outlay. 

They form churches on cheapness in numbers. Two or 
three persons, when no more jure available, may constitute 
themselves into a church and declare themselves sovereign 

I independent, fully competent to carry on the multi- 
form work of the Kingdom of God on earth. Baptists 
conduct worship on cheapness in the matter of time. ()n< c- 
a-month preaching is sufficient. They build houses of wor- 
ship out of logs or a few boards. Often a church lives for 
years with no building of its own. They claim the charity 
of the state, using a courthouse or public school building. 
In some instances a church joins in with a. Masonic lodge, 
the lodge meeting on the upper floor and the church on 
the lower of a two-story building erected by funds con- 
tributed by both bodies. 

Most stress was laid in the article referred to on the 
cheapness in supporting the ministry. Statistics and 
financial tables were exhibited showing that each one of the 
large American denominations surpassed the Baptists in 
the amount of salaries paid to pastors. 

The writer alleged that he was not caricaturing our 
people. Instead he was inveighing against extravagance 
in religion. His design was to show that in a free country 
like ours, the support of religion, on the part of a great 
popular body of Christians, may be reduced to the lowest 

isible terms without lessening evangelistic efficiency or 
making fewer the Dumber of converts. Spiritual blessings, 
inexpressibly worthful, both here and hereafter, and there- 
fore to be sought first of all, may be left by the American 
people iii the hands of the Baptists who offer as good a 

gospel as any with the advantage of small demand on one's 

purse. Why not all Americans be Baptists with their in- 
dividualism and democracy and save money 1 



118 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

Our anonymous friend the enemy was the victim of 
mercenary morality or something worse. Whatever he 
meant to do, he failed not to sting the Baptist pride of 
some of us with acid criticism. 

Are we willing to be the great American cheap sect? 
Is the cheapest the best in religion or anything else? 

If, for reasons our enemy recites, we are the great 
American cheap sect, how earn.' we to be such I Everything 
must be understood in the light of its history. Ours is a 
spiritual religion. We do not intend to use material means 
for its dissemination except in complete subordination to 
Spiritual aims and ends. Our American Baptist fathers, 

like our Master, being poor, naturally gave the larger share 
of their ministry to the poor. s..ni liberty, like political 
freedom, in its last analysis, is the sweat of the poor and 

the blood of the brave. Another reason grew out of our 

doctrine of voluntaryism. Other denominations enjoyed 
state aid. Their ministers were paid out of Funds raised 
by taxation. Our fathers denounced this un-Christian 
alliance of Church and state. Our ministers refused 
salaries, even if given voluntarily by church members, for 
fear of being classed with hireling preach 

One of my great grandfathers, who expressed his re- 
ligious ami political creed in the slogan, "1 believe in a 

Church without a bishop and a State without a king," while 

ministering in Georgia after the Revolution, received as a 

salary, his descendants are proud to -ay, only a peck of 

persimmons, with the privilege of gathering them himself 

whenever he might please. Any offer of salary he would 
have resented as an insult. 

He was not exceptional, but one of many like-minded 
men of God. They preached with enthusiasm and for the 
love of it and found themselves. They (armed l'"V bread 
and meat. They were carpenters and mechanics. They 

taught school. They practiced medicine. They held civil 

ofiiee. Iii a number of ways these men, heroically Ulus- 



REASON - FOB THE MOVEMENT 119 

trating devotion to free gospel and unselfish service, sup- 
ported themselves and their Families while ministering to 
a pioneer and poverty-stricken people. Naturally enough 
the people were pleased with the arrangement and wished 
it continued. And for those times it was not a bad arrange- 
ment, bul ono to excite our commendation and admiration. 

Principles are unchanging, our Baptisl principL 
cially so. Whatsoever is uew is not true, and whatsoever 

is true is not new in Baptist principles. On the other 
liand, the application of principles changes with changed 
conditions. The apostle Paul sometimes worked at tent 
making and declined compensation for his services. At 
Other times he rejoices in the liberality of the church at 
Philippi. May I he allowed to say without indelicacy that 
when I resisted, as I did most strenuously, a call to the 
ministry, it was chiefly on the ground of my unwillingness 
to receive a salary. The objection beat in my blood per- 
haps. The thought of receiving pecuniary compensation 
for my services was abhorrent to me. Why could I not 
preach and practice law as one of my grand-uncles did? 
It cost me a struggle to yield my objection. And I did so 
only when it became clear after suitable observation and 
reflection that an unpaid ministry today is an unappre- 
ciated ministry, usually but not always an ineffective min- 
istry, and a minister while engaged in so-called secular 
pursuits more likely to be despised as a money lover than 
one who gets a salary, it was proved that those ministers 
who gave themselves for all their time to their calling and 
were supported by their churches were not after the loaves 
and fishes. They were consecrated. They were self-sacri- 
ficing. They were generous. They were utterly unworldly 
in their ambitions. And they were never paid enough to 
tempt them to hoarding or luxury. As a rule they were 
given far less by the churches than they could command 
in some other vocation. In a word, their financial condi- 



120 VETERAN8 OF THE CROSS 

tion affords no such conditions of comfort and independence 
as their forbears enjoyed living on farms not infrequently 
worked by slave labor. 

To a limited but growing number, at all events, our 
churches are persuaded of the value and profit to them- 
selves of a fairly well supported pastorate. Whatever may 
have been justifiable in the past, our present-day en- 
lightened congregations are slow to elect the doctor- 
preacher, the lawyer-preacher, the farmer-preacher, the 
insurance-agent-preacher, the merchant-at-the-cross-roads- 

preacher, the st ndent-snpply-preadier, or the non-resident 

traveling preacher, riding <>ne hundred miles or more on 

Saturday to speak once On Sunday and return home on 

Monday. A pastor, with the multitudinous duties de- 
manded of him, EDUSl h" a whole man at his business — the 

biggest business ever entrusted to a mortal— seven days 

in the Week, four Weeks in the month, and twelve months 

in th.' year. Bowever, thousands of owr churches, it is no 
exaggeration to say, are not educated to pastoral support. 
They are languidly contenting themselves, when thqy are 
financially able to do much better, with one-fourth of a 
pastor or one-eighth or one-sixteenth. More's th( 4 pity. 
Once-a-month preaching and non-resident pastors who are 
contributing to oar reputation as the "great American 
cheap sect," are a big burden the denominational wagon is 
Straining to haul up the hill of prop \<>r is all the 

faull with the preachers. Possibly Ear less than half of it 

On the other hand, it is quite true that a few of as in 
the Baptist ministry always have been well paid, possibly 
better than we deserve, serving as we have enlightened 
churches, believing in pastoral support ami amply supply- 
ing it for years. Ami yet there is little room, if any, for 
BSVing even on Die largest salary. One may insure his 
life. That is about all one can do after meeting all 
demands. 

Alas, there are so many churches while theoretically 



REASONS FOR THE MOVEMENT LSI 

maintaining thai "the laborer is worthy of his hire," put 
their pastor's compensation below thai of unskilled day 
laborers in our shops and factories. Thai pastor may have 
had long training, embracing tour years in a high school, 
four years in college and three years in a theological semi- 
nary, before receiving ordination, and yet, so far as com- 
pensation goes, is on a par with an unlettered manual toiler. 
At a time when the cost of living is going up the pastor's 
salary is going down because of the decreased purchasing 
power of the dollar. Meanwhile he must meet all require- 
ments set for one in his calling, lit 1 musl not go into busi- 
n. ss "on the side." lie must keep up appearances in his 
social environment He must educate his children. He 
must buy books and subscribe to papers and periodicals. 
He must he a leader in giving to all missionary and benevo- 
lent objects besides responding to all the calls of his coun- 
try and community. Saving for a rainy day or lor old 

^ or a fund laid aside for sickness or burial expenses is 
out of the question. His insurance may have to be given 
up. When every process of economy has been tried, it too 
often happens that the unhappy man finds himself in debt. 
And debt is slavery. A brave and buoyant spirit in such 
a stale is hard to keep up. 

Then in his sorest financial straits death comes. A 
widow and orphans are bereft of support. There is no 
legacy. There is no insurance. It had to be given up or 
cashed in to meet living expenses or the boy's or girl's 
education. 

[s the pastor to blame for leaving a penniless family? 
Had the church no responsibility for that unhappy situa- 

tio: 

Our age is disproving the old slanderous saw to the 
effect that "republics are ungrateful. n Or the other form 

of misrepresentation that "corporations have no souls." 
Our country insures the lives of its troops. It pensions 
its soldiers when helpless from wounds or enfeebled by 



122 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

old age. The veteran when incapable of rendering service 
is held in high honor. Cities are following America's 
example. In my own city we pension the veterans of our 
police force and fire department. Corporations employ- 
ing for years on meager salaries faithful servants are pro- 
viding for them when their earning power is over. It is 
understood that all employing organizations admit that, 
acting on the law of supply ami demand, they compel their 
agents and workmen to live on a minimum income. They 
secure their helpers on the lowest practical terms. 

And this rule obtains among the churches. They do 
not encourage extravagance in the ministry. Far from it. 
Indeed, some churches have been suspected of choosing a 
pastor because of the smallness of his family, thereby dis- 
closing a possible kinship to Herod, who ordered the massa- 
cre of the innocents of Bethlehem. It is gratifying to know 
that all over the South the outlook brightens. More and 
more the churches are advancing in their demands for an 
educated and "all-time" ministry. Is it not reasonable, 

therefore, to expect a quickened interest in supplying the 
ministry with conditions essential to the support and effi- 
ciency of such men? Alas, the churches are not measuring 

up to reasonable expectations, in as much as they are not 

doing it and not likely to do it for some decades to come, 

is it not binding on them to make offerings for a pension 

fund? 

If it be a recognized ethical principle with countries, 

cities and corporations that faithful servants arc not to be 
suffered to subsist on charity when no Longer productive, 
shall the churches accept a lower standard of obligation 
and duty? In a word, is tic social conscience of organized 
bodies of believers in Jesus Christ and agents for promot- 
ing the Kingdom of God on earth to he less sensitive to 
gratitude, justice and kindness than that of purely secular 
organizational Shall soldiers and officers in the military 
and civil service of the nation be appreciated and rewarded 



REASONS FOR THE MOVEMENT L2 I 

while soldiers of the cross, ministers and missionaries, do 
[ess if qoI more heroic, working for years on smaller in- 
comes, be left to languish in want or to fill a pauper's 
grai 

Such questions arrest attention. They provoke thought. 

They demand an answer. And it is coming, 

Democracies mobilize slowly and Baptist churches are 
democracies. We have mobilized our missionary forces a1 

rapid rate, though pioneers in world-wide evangeliza- 
tion under Carey and Judson. We have been tardy in our 

educational development, though not without men of learn- 
ing and culture, as early as colonial days. We have been 
behind others in pastoral support. We are behind today. 

We must front the facts. And now other Christian bodies 
are leading us in proper provision for their old, worn-out 
or disabled preachers. We must awake to the facts. We 
must sit up and take notice. And we will. At least all 
those churches affiliated with the Southern Baptist Con- 
vention are offered an opportunity to rise to the occasion 
and meet their obligations. Gradually but surely, and 
sooner or later generously and even magnificently, our 
Baptist people of the more consecrated and liberal kind 
beyond question will rally to the support of this thoroughly 
Christian cause. The pension fund of three million dollars 
is coming. Blessed are they who invest in it. 



THE MANTLE OF OUR FATHERS 
Dr. K. C. Route 

Editor Baptist Standard 

"DECENTLY at a denominational conference I heard dis- 
-*-*- cussed in a very interesting fashion such vital subjects 
as Christian Education, Missions, Hospitals, and Orphan- 
ages. Inadvertently, not purposely, the speakers omitted 



124 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

any reference to the veterans of the cross who in other 
years laid the foundations on which we are now building 
all of these institutions. Just in front of me sat a man 
whose hoary head and bowed form reminded me that he 
was nearing the end of life's journey. Presently the last 
speaker had concluded his message, the benediction was 

pronounced, and as this veteran of the cress turned with 
feeble step into the aisle, I looked into the face of the man 
who, many years ago, had buried me with Christ in baptism. 
The memories Of the past, long forgotten, were revived, as 
I elasped the hand of this dear old father in Israel. I 
remembered the night when, as a timid country lad, stand- 
ing in the congregation, I heard the prayerful idea of the 
plain preacher, as he begged men and women, boys and 
girls, that night, to turn to Christ. 1 remember how the 
congregation Bang, "I Am Coming to the Cross" — 

4, I am trusting, Lord in Tl i 

Blessed Ln alvary ; 

Ilumhly at Thy Cr068 I bow, 

Sav< :..• . J( a u ; Bave me now.* 
I remembered how my wayward heart could no longer 

resist that invitation, and how a few days later, as I came 
up out of the waters Of B near-by stream, mv joyful heart 

Bang with others, 

"< I happy <lay that fizea my choiee 
( ei tin <-. my Savior and my (ML 99 

TOO oft we forget those faithful, heroic veterans of 
Christ's Gospel who stood between OS and eternal death, 
who as prophets of God cried out, "Turn, turn; why will 
ye dio? M who took our hands and Led us into paths of 
salvation. Surely, no men are more entitled to our grati- 
tude than these men who, hearing the call of Jesus, turned 

away from friends and earthly store to follow wherever 
He led, I have just read tie 4 story of the call of Klislia. 




EUGENE COKE ROUTH 



Bugene ( oke Routb was born at LaGrange, Texas, November 26, 
i s 7i. the son of Joseph Bdward and Mary Ellen (Stramler) Etouth. 
Be received his education in typical country Bchools of Texas, the 
Flatonia Bigh School, and in 1897 was gra luated from the University 
of T i tl e a. During one year be was president of 

the University Y. M. C. A., and is now a member of the Texas State 
Historical \ — :iation. Baylor University I the degree of 

h. D, in 1919. 

Be was converted in i s, .'i and was ordained by the Ban Saba 
church in L90L For two nary of the Lam- 

ia Baptist a 90 ' ■ Pn m 19 3 to L9 ~ he was pastor of the 
Lockhaii church. In 1907 li«- Sv etwater Aseo 

• returned to South Texas and became editor 
of tin- Baptist Visitor, located at San Antonio, which paper Is 

sine the South Te bist. This paper was consolidated with 

Baptist Standard in 1912, and it> editor became associate editor of 
tin- Standard. When Dr. J. B. Gambrell, editor of the Standard, 
ponding of the Baptist Genera] <'<>n 

vention in 1914, cted editor, which position he 

has Bince held. Be ember of the Relief and Annuity 

Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. 

11.' married Mary M. Wroe of Winchest . Texas, December 20, 
1897. To this union there have been born Bis children: Mary Lucile, 
i; s Bolland, Alice Elizabeth, Porter Wroe, Bugene Copass, and 
Leila Catherine. 



///■/ i SONS FOB THE MOVEMENT L2fi 

The mantle ol Elijah rested upon the young preacher, and 
he was able to do a great work largely because of the 
ministry and influence of the prophet of God who lived 
before hint Can we imagine that ESlisha forget Elijah, 
or that Timothy forgot rani? We younger preachers may 
never let a day pass without thinking of the college or 
seminary where we received our training. Shall we forge! 
those dear old men who either led us to Christ, or, in the 
first years of our ministry, were faithful companions and 
counselors? 

From them we learn lessons of faith. They were men 
who believed God, who believed that God heard and 
answered prayer. They taught us lessons in loyalty, loyalty 
to the Bible, loyalty to Christ, and to His church. Their 
devotion to Christ's cause never wavered. We learned 
from them the meaning of courage. They were not afraid 
of any perils that might beset their paths. They had no 
patience with error or sin. They combated deadly heresies, 
whenever and wherever they dared show r themselves. These 
men knew the meaning of sacrifice. They gave God the 
first place. They left all to follow Him. How we are 
indebted to these veterans of the cross for the lessons they 
taught ils of faith, loyalty, courage, sacrifice, patience and 
love ! 

Our present-day achievements, in which we glory, were 
made possible by the labors of our fathers. Their mantles 
rest upon us. The foundation stones of every Baptist in- 
stitution in our great State are cemented together with their 
blood and tears. Surely if any man in the world is to be 
concerned about and interested in any program that tak<-s 
care of the veterans of the cross, we younger men, called 
to be Christ's preachers, should be concerned. 

We have about us a great company of laymen, men 
and women whom God has blessed with material goods, 
whom He is using in a mighty way to lead others to true 
conceptions of Kingdom service. They are not to forget 



126 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

the plain preachers who, years ago, led them out of their 
selfishness, out of the bondage of sin into the glorious 
liberty of the Gospel of Christ. But for those faithful 
preachers of Christ's Gospel, they might still be in the gall 
of bitterness and the bonds of iniquity. Let not these 
great business men, these faithful, gentle women, forget 
the dear old men who as Christ's evangels led them into a 
new and glorious world. 

I am thinking now of an old man who, in the earlier 
days, was a great soul-winner. Thousands of lost men and 
women were led into the light by his messages of hope. 
The hungry who came to his door turned not away unfed. 
More than one time he shared the last crumb of bread with 
a needy man. The sick looked to him for succor, the faint- 
hearted for cheer, and the Borrowing for comfort, lie had 
little money, because the people thought that souls were 
hire enough. 

The years passed, and the day came when he and his 
companion of the years sat in the door of a little three- 
roomed cottage, No children had been spared to comfort 

them in their declining days. Hope still lived in their 
hearts. Surely they would not be forsaken. They had 
given their lives to others. Now others would steady their 
steps as they trod the path which grew bright as they 
neared the Perfect Day. 

But, somehow, the people had forgotten. Years ago a 
young farmer had been saved hy the I lospel which the faith- 
ful man of God preached. He had hundreds of acres of 
land in cultivation, hut he forgot the man who pointed 
him to the Savior of the world. One day another young 
man whose sins crushed him with the weight of a world, 
felt the burden lifted from his troubled soul as, in a quiet 
hour, the preacher led him to Jesus, who gave 1 rest. He 
became a great business man who, in the press of matters, 
forgot the worn-out preacher. The two could wait no 
longer, and gentle modesty and pride must be put aside 



REASONS FOR THE MOVEMENT ir; 

ami the appeal senl to the denomination. Somehow, Dearly 
everybody else had Forgotten them and their comrades, 
who had thought not of themselves, but of others. Nobody 
on earth ever knew how in the Lonely hours they suffered, 
vet rejoiced, as there abode with them One whose grace 
alone could sustain* This is the experience not of on*' 

man, bul of many, for whoso support and comfort in their 

last days on earth Southern Baptists with millions of dol- 
lars entrusted to them by the Giver of all good gifts are 
joyfully and generously to make their offering. 



V 
BY-PRODUCTS OF THE MOVEMENT 

Pastoral Support and Baptist Progress. 
Dr. Victor I. Masters. 

What Constitutes an Adequate Salary? 
Mr. J. C. Moss. 

Saving VERSUS Efficiency. 
Dr. J. W. Van Cleve. 

Helping the Young Preacher. 
Dr. B. H. DeMent. 

Brightening the Missionary's Outlook. 
Prof. G. S. Dobbins. 

Entering the Baptist Ministry. 
Dr. P. S. Groner. 

The Preacher's Family. 
Dr. J. P. Love. 



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"His form is tottering and bowed, 
Bis aged hands have lost their skill; 

But like the moon within a cloud 
A hidden light his soul doth till. 

"It Bhineth through his earewora fa . 
Aj i undid garb it ili: 

The - mantle 

Not found in pi 

In 

triumph of the shares, 

1 [e stands besidi 

'•II.' hi are the mystic anthem tone ; 

He mingles wit! throng 

Who meet before the greal white throi 
His voire uplifts the weddinf 

— Si lected 



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VI< TOR 1 RV I N i: MASTERS 



hr. Victor [rvine Masters was born in Anderson County, Smith 
Carolina, March i, i s,, '7. Be is the son of Priestly A. and Martha 
Amelia Burriss) Piasters. Be took the A. B. degree from Purman 
University, L888; A. M., from Purman in L889, and D. D. in 1913; 
Th.M. from Southern Baptist Tin ! Seminary in i s :».;. Be 

married Lois Eunice Wickliffe <>f* Anderson, South Carolina, July li>, 
l ^ *. * : i ; was ordained to the Baptist ministry in i vv '.'. Baa 1 been 
pastor of the Baptisl Church, Bock Bill, South Carolina; Poca 
bontas, Virginia, 1894-6; asi itor Baptist Courier, Green 

viiic, South Carolina, 1896 I owner of Baptisl \ ,< 

L 905-7; associate editor Religious Berald, Richmond, Virginia. 
L908-9; educational secretary and Buperintendenl of publicity of 
Southern Baptisl Borne Mission Board, Atlanta, Georgia, 1909-21, 
and in 192] became editor of the western Recorder, Louisville; 
editor of the Borne Field, 1909 17. 

Doctor blasters is known b irons writer and among his pub 

lications arc: "The Borne Mission Task,' 1 "Baptisl Borne Missions," 
"Baptisl Missions in the South," "Country Church in the South/' 
"Call of the South." and "Making America Christian*' 1 



PASTORAL SUPPORT and BAPTIST PROORE 

Dr, Yn TOB i. U 

Editor Western Recorder 

r piIF,KE is evidence that doI a tew of our churches are 
■*• increasing the support of the pastor during th< 
days, it is a gratifying omen. Jt is partly attributable to 
the glaring Deed of such increase, and, I think', nol a little 
to the awakening which lias come to many churches in con- 
nection with our 75 Million Campaign. Hundreds of th 
that had been giving only a few hundred dollars to all 
objects woke up to realize that it was actually possible to 
give thousands of dollars without hurting themselves at all. 

The religious census of 1906 figured the salary of the 
pastor in terms of the average amount given by each 
church, not of the amount received by each pastor. The 
result in the 1906 census was that Southern Baptists were 
put down as giving an average salary of only $367. There 
are reasons to believe that this average was too small. But 
the facts were bad enough. 

The 1916 religious census undertook to get reports from 
pastors on this subject. They received too few replies from 
Southern Baptist preachers for their estimate to be con- 
elusive. But it is at least suggestive. Replies came from 
5,143 of our preachers. Of these 2,434, who were engaged 

lusively in pastoral work, reported an average salary of 
(1,072. There were 1,767 other pastors who did other 
work in addition to their pastoral service and 942 who did 
no pastoral work. It was found that more than 1,000 of 
the Baptist ministers who reported were engaged in i'arm- 
j- occupations. To be exact, twmty per cent of the num- 
ber who reported were farmers. In this respect they far 
outclassed any other denomination. Southern Methodists, 
who are in the same iield, reported only twenty-one 
farmers. 

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132 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

Unfortunately there is no source from which exact 
information can be had as to the average salary our min- 
isters receive. The figures of the religious census above are 
about the best to be had. But to make the average given in 
the census we must include hundreds of rural preachers who 
are still receiving much less than $1,000 and who are com- 
pelled either to farm or pursue some other calling in order 
to support their families. 

Our own statistics in the Southern Convention minutes 
for 1919 Show that $12,900,000 was contributed to home 
pin- This includes the - of the pastors, which 

arc the larger part of the amount, but there is no way to 
estimate exactly what pari of the amount is creditable to 
salaries. T I preachers in the 

Southern Baptist I ttion who are doing at least some 

itoral work, though perhaps nearly 2,000 arc only 
engaged for pa e time, if $10,000,000 ol the amount 

contributed to home pur] credited to salaries, the 

average salary WOnld be aboul $1,100. This conforms 

fairly well to the censu ate and we may take it as an 

authoritative basis for our deductions. 

While I am dealing with figures, suppose the reader 
allow me to bc1 down here some figures about the probable 
cost of living for a minister with his wife and, we will say, 
three children. This cost will he more impressive if we 
shall use figures which dial] represent the minimum on 

which a home may be run on the closest margin consistent 

with comfort and wholesome living. Here are the figures? 

HoUSe rent I 100 

( '< si of supplies 400 

Maintaining tram or ear 300 

Clothing and household goods 400 

ool for children 250 

Books and Convention trips 150 

Total 01,9 



BY-PRODUCTS 01 TEE MOVEMENT 1 I I 

There may be farmers who say thai they do nol 
much aa $1,900 in cash from their farms. Bu1 the items of 
house rent, maintaining trams and cars, and perhaps thn 
fourths of tin 4 coal of supplies, making a total of $1,000, 
will come to the average farmer without the expenditure of 

a cent in cash money. Be owns his homo, uses his teams 

for paying business ends, and raises most of his suppli 
The minister will have to expend $1,000 before the farmer 
will find it necessary to spend his first dollar. Tim minis- 
ter will l)e no better oil' with $1,900 cash than the farmer 
will be with $000. Of course these figures will not apply in 
every ease. But they do set forth the average situation. 
Moreover, Southern farmers as a class will be willing to see 
and act upon this truth, if we shall present it to them 
understanding^ and sympathetically. 

There may be men who are maintaining their families 
on less than the $1,900 indicated in the above table. I 
heard the other day of a preacher's wife who was taking in 
washing to help pay the family expenses. But it is a seri- 
ous reflection on our Baptist people in this day of great 
prosperity if they are willing to have a faithful man preach 
to them and their people without providing an adequate 
support for him and his home. It would be no less reflec- 
tion on them to be willing to have a man preach to them 
who was not worthy of a full support. But the history of 
tii is business with Baptists has been that the support has 
been too meager ten times where the preacher was 
unworthy at one. 

A rough estimate of the income of Baptists in the 
South for 11)19, which had its source in figures given by 
Mr. Richard EL Edmonds, showed that our Baptist income 
was perhaps $3,400,000,000. IT our people would give one- 
half of one per cent of this amount to the maintenance of 
Southern Baptist ministers it would make an average 
salary of about $1,1)00 for them. There are indications that 
about twenty per cent of the Baptist families in the South 



134 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

are expending approximately $75,000,000 annually for the 
gas and upkeep of automobiles, of which machine most of 
them had never heard twenty years ago, and they have 
plenty of money for other things they want. 

The difference between $1,900 and the average salary of 
about $1,100, represents $800 which is paid by the preacher 
for the privilege of preaching Jesus Christ, or else is paid 
by the labor of his wife and children that lie may have that 
privilege. Baptists are nol the only offenders in this 
respect, but we are concerned with Baptists. 

It is a standing reproa ih of American Christianity that 

it is willing that i smen and Servants shall impart 

ir spiritual I in return rendering to these 

work ts a fair and honest supporl from their own material 

[s. We are permitted grateful for present tokens 

of improvement. Bui tie 4 improvement is all too slow. The 

cause of Christ is g grievously for lack of the sup- 

i, while our p ; Le are abundantly able to pay 

them in a way that will DOt only provide the mei 
! life, hnt shall take good eare of them. 

in the Relief and Annuity Board at Dallas, Texas, 
Southern Bapti rendering a worthy though belated 

■ in prepaid] of our aired and indigent 

soldiers of the i , May the resources of the board rap- 
idly in worthiness of I he effort b the 
more apparent when it is considered that by the inclusion 
at a fair valuation of the services these veterans rendered 
to the denomination and to the churches for which they did 
not re y, the amount would total mi ay times the 
$2,500,000 which it is proposed at this time to raise for 
e work of the board. 

How are we going to increase the number of young men 
who shall desire to go into the ministry? We shall do it, 

for one thing, by beginning earnestly to pray the Lord of 
the harvest to send forth more laborers. We have not done 
that in our churches very generally or very earnestly. It 



BY PRODUCTS OF THE MOVEMENT 

would seem thai God is shaping things to make Ufl do it, by 
allowing the ministerial supply to Call off until we shall 
become awakened anew to our dependence on Bim for men 
who want to preach and who can preach the gospel 

salvation. 

B( sides praying to God, 1 know of nothing more impor- 
tant for our churches to do, looking to more young men 

ering the ministry, than to support the preachers they 
now have. I have nol recently heard the thread-bare char 
that preachers preach for money. There never was a falser 
charge. It is the ready expedient of covetous and small 
souls. As a class, the preachers I know could more than 
hold their own with the average man to whom they preach, 
if they should devote their lives to secular pursuits. The 

ly proof I have is that the pioneer preachers in this 
country were better off than most of the men they preached 
to. Most of them worked for themselves during the week 
and preached to the laymen on Sunday. Preachers could 
do it again by neglecting their proper work, but they ought 
not and must not. They must give their entire time to the 
work of the ministry and to shepherding the flock. 

, When an impressionable Christian boy is considering 
the choice of his life work, if he sees the churches around 
him treat their pastors as if they were a class of respectable 
mendicants, and not men whose work is worthy of definite 

apensation, even so much as the pay to a Negro plowman 
in the field, it is not a remarkable tiling if he shall get a 
false and belittling idea of the ministry as a vocation. It 
1 be wonderful if he did not. 

is no room here adequately to show how parsi- 

ny in pastoral support is a heritage from the pioneer 
i\\>x>. But we have no more right to hold our support of 

religion down to the simple requirements of the pasl than 
we do the money we spend on automobiles, farm machinery 

and a hundred other devices of our advancing material 
civilization. The pioneer church largely got along without 



136 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

pastoral service. The modern church cannot do it, either 
in country or town or city. If the minister gives his life to 
his people, and not merely a sermon once a week or once 
a month, lie must be supported. The need in thousands of 
our churches today is greater for pastoral Bervice than for 
more preaching, much as more preaching is needed. 

What a man dors with his money is a fine criterion of 
what he is in his heart Multiply this man by the number 

of men, women and children who make up the membership 

of a church and the same truth which applies to him as an 

individual will apply to them all as a body. If they 
liave money for lands and automobiles and pleasures and 
luxuries, bul only a reluctant dole for the man whom they 

have elected to Lead them in spiritual tiling, and for the 

causes which he presents, it shows thai they are either 
woefully untaught or woefully barren of spirit. 

I have often heard honored Christian men speaking to 
our Baptist people in the presentation of a dozen or more 

at and worthy causes, who, in their anxiety to impress 
their hearers with the greatness of the cause they fostered, 
sought to show how the supporl of the particular object 
presented would read and make everything else go right. 

That is all xvvy well. There L8 Usually truth in it; some- 
times more, sometimes Less. But I do not remember ever 
to have heard a representative of one of the causes fostered 
by our denomination Bel forth in his appeals that the mani- 
• point of departure in seeking to support in a Large and 

worthy way the work of Christ everywhere was in a decent 
support Tor the pastor, along with a demand for his life to 

riven to teaching and preaching. 

Yet our efforts to enlarge our people would normally 
gin with the obviously-needed tasks <*tt their doors, and 
there is assuredly no more obviously-needed cause for lib- 
erality to which we may invito our people than that of an 
adequate support of their pastors. 

Everything we do, from orphanages to Foreign Mis- 



BY PRODUCTS OF THE MOVEMEh T 131 

dons, reacts on everything else wo do as o spiritual body. 
Bui action is greater than reaction, And it is impossible 
thai our churches themselves or our denomination, with all 
of its largeness and its greal outlook, shall ever come to the 
full realization and manifestation of its vast spiritual com- 
petencies, bo long as our churches shall stumble over the 
obvious A B C matter of supporting the men who ^ivc 
their lives to them in the gospel ministry. 

I do not know which we Deed most just now, a better 
support for our ministers or more young men coming into 
the ministry. Bu1 we need both very much. Shall we not 
earnestly pray and labor for both? 



WHAT CONSTITUTES AX ADEQUATE PASTOR'S 

SALARY? 

Mr. J. C. Moss 

Til IXK it is clear that the Apostle Paul had no depend- 
-*- ent relatives; nowhere in his writings is there hint of 
personal financial responsibilities. The high cost of living 
of today would have proven a startlingly novel question to 
such a wise practical 1st as he. Wouldn't you read and 
re-read his pungent comments on today's situation? 

To thousands of his fellow-ministers of today, these 
times are out of joint; yet adjustment to them must be 
con. by the pastor and his family, for the problems 

rise up more than three times a day. 

T( ind men of like professions are overwhelmed 

by this same overgrown problem; 143,000 teachers are said 
to have quit their "life-work" in 1919 to enter more 
lucrative work. High school boys in Virginia take summer 
work at Newport News shipyards and earn a higher per 

m than their teachi 

Layman, what qualities do you demand must appear 
in your pastor and i'amil. 



138 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

May I believe that all these are expected by you: A 
quick, sound intellect, sympathy and geniality, a broad 
charity, enthusiasm and aggressiveness, breadth of vision, 
and the forwardlook, and leadership? 

Could you maintain such qualities today for long and 
keep buoyant if you realized that your congregation 
remained indifferent to the evident suffering and cruel 
sacrifices of your fam rificea of which you bore the 

burden in addition to the care of your churches! 

In order to render the richest services to his community 
a pastor of today is greatly blessed and heartened if lie 
lias a home ilia; is neat and orderly and well equipped, and 

instant in hospitality; about tint home an atmosphere of 

cheerfulness, of Belf-culture, of md papers; from 

that home neatly-clad children with hap] itening 

to school ; that home a daily haven from a heavy day's 
ear rvice to fellowmenj and in that home a help- 

meet, comfortable arid joyous, busy without harassment at 
her tasks. 

lint tie dd to these virtues a daily leader- 

ship in the crowding "welfare" opportunities of 1920. He 

must lead villi vision and couraee: hut arc 1 the-. 1 possible 
if cankering care dwells on the home budget in all its 

glaring difficulties I 

Clearly our today's pastor musl have even more 
than the charming chi i oldsmith's Vill. 

Preacher \ 

"Par other aims his heart had learn'd to pri 
Hon e wretched than to i 

Care their bolts I 

II: 

Tie: ieve the - pride, 

And l las fail: I 'd to \ 

But in his duty, prompt at I J I all, 

If.- wateh'd and wept, ! 1 and Celt for all; 

1 1.' | tied i ach art, reproved each dull d< 
Allur'd to brighter v and led the v.. 




JAMES CALVIN MOSS 

James Calvin Mo- was born in Lynchburg, Va., on September 
22, LSb'4. He is a graduate of the Lynchburg High School, and is 
Btill "an eager student in the University of Books." He has been 
a member of the First Baptisl Church of Lynchburg Bince l s 7t>, 
and has been superintendent of the Sunday school for four years; 
chairman of the board of deacons, seven years; state president of 
the B. V. P. [J., in it- second year; vice-president for >ix years for 
Virginia, of the Home Mission Board; moderator of Strawberry 
Baptisl Association; and present member for Virginia 1 on the execu- 
tive committee of the Southern Baptist Convention; a member for 
Lynchburg in Virginia State Assembly, house of delegates, 1916 17, 
and on its continuing commission on Economy and Efficiency. Since 
I s '.'" in- has been general agent for the Union Central Life Insurance 
Company. 



BY-PRODU( T8 OF THE MOVEMENT 139 

Radically broader and fuller tnusl be the equipment 
and daily engagements of today's pastor, and call il unfor- 
tunate if you will, it remains true thai a vital, m ious 
consideration to every pastor is the receipl of an adeqm 
salary. 

The Bureau of Labor recently advised the Cong] 
Bional Committee thai salaries of Government employes in 
Washington must provide $1,100 as the minimum on which 
a single woman could live there in health and decency; 
that a man and wife and three young children could not 

along on less than $2,250. 

uliarly irksome to "the servant of all" is it to learn 

li facts and figures as the following — when compared 
with what thousands of communities and churches today 
educated teachers and ministers: 

On November 9, 1919, the Building Trade Employers' 
it ion, of Manhattan, issued a scale of wages per day, 

ich to twenty-four trades like bricklayers, carpenters, 
housesmiths, cement masons, stonecutters, lathers, plas- 
terers, electrical workers, painters, plumbers, etc., show an 
s7.06 per day of eight hours. If you grant they 
work 250 days in a year there is $1,765 for a short year's 
work, i. e., five-sevenths only of a year. 

in New York City last year the average wages paid 

phone girls was $842. 

What, then — on conservative standards — are the "dol- 
lar" needs of a village preacher, wife and three children 

•uii': of fifteen I — for this is denominated "the average 

Our Government's Labor Review for November, 1919, 
conl e following: Retail cost for 1919 for an average 

family, of food, Consisting of twenty-tWO different food 

articles, total for the year: In Richmond, \ a., $682.6] ; in 
Little Rock, Ark., $707.18; in Atlanta, Ga., $683.89; in 

Dallas, Tex., $720.48. The other cosl items for the year 

1919 are there also riven On retail basis — for an aver, 



140 VETERANS OF THE CEOSS 

family of five, and (omitting scores of items and including 
only absolute essentials) show in Richmond, VfL, a total 
living cost of $1,464.89. 

From this Richmond, Va., total of $1,464.89 deduct, say, 
twenty per cent, for lower food costs and house rent in the 
country, but add $15 a month for horse and buggy, and 
you arrive at: Total cost for family of the village or 
country pastor (minimum), $1,464 for the necessities. 

Now, you at Once a8k, "How do these pastors' families 
live on the smaller than $1,500 salaries paid nowadays?" 
My answer is, t€ l don't know, but if my pastor was being 

paid less than $1,500 in 1920 I'd gel busy al once so as to 

dear my own cons ' All this is said on the assump- 

tion that thep rtor is giving his whole time to his churches, 

and thus una!'! 1 to supplement his Balary by farming or 

other I. 

What will you DO, ] n will: ce, to abate 

the fierceness of this Bfe r ly beating upon your 1 

friends, the pastor and his familj I 

"Hard was their i« ■' . homely was their food, 

1 'or all their lu.xin y u B i w 



T 



SAVING VERSUS EFFICIENCY 

Da. J. \\\ Van Cl : 

111' words which form the title of this paper define a 
real and vital issue. In the matter of caring for 
Retired Ministers we are shut up to a choice between two 

possible solutions. ( hie ifi to pay the preacher a salary with 

a libera] surplus above living exp< i leave him 

to his own devices. Whether he shall Spend his old age in 

comforl or in penury is to depend wholly upon his own 

frugality and wisdom. If he fails to save his money and 
to keep it, then he is left to suffer the consequences of his 



BY PRODUCTS OF THE MOVEMENT l w 

neglect, precisely as other shiftless people do. r rhis policy 
makes a fine superficial show of wisdom and justice, of the 
distinctly worldly type, bu1 from the higher viewpoint it 
s discouraging gaps. The alternative is to pay tin" 
minister a fair working salary, while he is fit for work, and 
to encourage him to spend his salary for Ids equipment and 
development by providing a comfortable pension for his 
failing years. It is almost the reverse of the other plan in 
that it makes the future of the minister depend wholly 
upon Ids ministerial service. 

The time-worn policy of trying to combine these two 
into a scheme which offers neither sufficient savings nor 
sufficient church support, and pieces out a little savings 
from a slender salary, with a little giving from the church 
later on, cannot be accepted as a real solution. It is a per- 
petual temporizing without either a rational basis or an 
adequate result. No solution can be acceptable as final 
winch does not in its general outlines commend itself to the 
men who are most deeply and directly concerned in it as 
just and equal. No such conviction of substantial justice 
can ever be produced by this policy of patchwork. The 
very attempt to administer such a policy involves us in 
immediate perplexity over questions concerning relative 
economic deservings — questions that will not be pushed 
aside, but which cannot well be answered. 

Should the man who has neglected to save money 
receive for that reason a larger allowance, so that he may 
live as comfortably as Ids more frugal brother 1 If we 
have supplied a man with an income that would enable him 
to save, and have done this in order that he might save, 
ought he not to bo required to save or be penalized for his 
failure so to do? Should not the frugal man profit by his 
frugality? If they are to receive an equal allowance, shall 

it be large enough to provide a reasonable degree of com- 
fort for the improvident man, or just enough to afford a 

bare subsistence for the man who has lived frugally 1 If 



142 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

the former of these standards is adopted, then, in one way, 
we shall be paying both men twice, when one of them does 
not need it; if we adopt the latter, we shall have the modi- 
fying spectacle of old preachers in want, a thing which we 
never shall be able to justify to the world. If the question 
of relative frugality and wastefulness is to he considered, 
how shall it be determined ! If a man were to ignore the 
needs of his own kin — parents, brothers, sisters — because 
they were not of his immediate household, we would hardly 
commend him for his prudence; and yet on just such 
prudence might depend the margin between a surplus and 
a bare balancing of r and expenditures. Sometimes 

a large factor in what passes Eor economy and thrift is a 
spec shrewd bargaining which at leasl contributes 

nothing to ministerial i Furthermore, the tempta- 

tion to cross the line between a fair bargain and what is 
popularly known as a "Great Bargain 91 is not always 
resisted* Ministers with a little surplus cash have been 
known to take advantage of the necessities of the unfortu- 
nate in ways that, while technically honest, were neverthe- 
less calculated to '-a- 4 a lasting shadow of reproach upon 
the church and the ministry. Again what calls itself by 
the nan a Lack of Liberality. No small 

hindrance to the ; lent work i church has come 

from the penuriousness of well-to-do preachers. The mat- 
ter of frugality is far from being as simple as it 1<>< 
Bow will it 1)-' possible among so many factors to decide 
whether a man is | granted as frugal or as something 

Less commendable 1 Every man is convinced that he has 
used all possible diligence and frugality, and will feel that 
lie has been unjustly dealt with unless treated accordingly. 
It is the same issue which appears in the question, 
"Ought not the man who has received a smaller salary to 
be correspondingly favored in the distribution of relief 
funds? The minister who has received $1,500 ought to 
have saved more, and should therefore be I dy, and 



BY-PRODUCTS OF THE MOVEMENT L4S 

receive a smaller allotment than the one who has never 
received more than $1,000. This is also b superficial secur- 
ing of justice. Differences in Balary may count tor some- 
thing, but often they do not. Always they count for 
less than is popularly supposed, and they are by no menus 

elusive in individual cases. Size of income is only one 

tor in making up the account. The situations which 

!• the larger salaries usually impose a higher standard 
of living; the size of the salary cannot; be considered wholly 
apart from the number of people it is to support; the 
variant of perquisites evades all calculations, sometimes 
being a negligible quantity and sometimes a noticeable addi- 

i to the income; a family handicapped by the frequent 
or continuous illness of some of its members is not on equal 
terms with one in which health is practically unbroken; 
some men have a positive genius for attracting gifts and 
donations outside of the salary, which is lacking in other 
men who are equally good and efficient. These considera- 
tions are quite enough to show how 7 indefinite and unsatis- 

ory must be any distribution which can be made under 
this patchwork combination of personal savings and church 
contributions. 

Further confusion and difficulty are introduced into the 
problems by the commingling of deservings and necessities. 
Neither under this plan can be entirely left out of the 

ranting. The plan rests upon the assumption that the 
minister has earned a life-time support, a part of which is 
still due and unpaid. The only tangible evidence that he 
! not received it is the fact that he does not have it. This 
affixes as the actual basis of his claim, not his past servi 
or his | livings but his present poverty. No matter 

how we try to disguise it, this scheme makes the retired 
minister an object of charity of the churches. It will be 
difficult, if not impossible; to obtain an adequate support 
upon such a plea. Men do nol feel toward their charities 
the compelling 36] se of obligation which binds them to the 



144 VETERANS OF THE CEOSS 

payment of their debts. Furthermore, we shall not be able 
to secure for any man, however worthy, who is an object of 
charity, the respect which is fully accorded the man who 
lives upon an income which is justly and securely his own. 
Under such a system, tin* preacher must not only expose his 
poverty, but he must justify it in order to establish his 
claim to support. Before the equity of his claim can be 
fully rec< gnized, he nrasl se1 at resl all the questions here- 
tofore enumerated, which relate to the wise and frugal use 
of his m<»ney. They may not be asked explicitly and 

officially, but they will be implied in the minds of his 

brethren, and cannot be ignored by those who are to adjust 
his claim. Tn some way or other it will be inquired 
whether or no1 he is really p< in need; how poor he 

is, and how he Stem converts 

what ought to be a Boll of Honor into something not far 
from a roll of dishonor, li t< nds to defeat itself by weak- 
ening the incentive to Bave. Il 18 8 policy which never 

arrives anywhere. [nstead of Bolving the problem it 
effectually blocks the way to a solution, one of the two 
propositions already stated must be definitely adopted and 
definitely worked oul in order that we may have a cou- 
nt policy thai we can follow to the end. 
I pr< senl the proposition to solve the problem by paying 
Midi salaries as will afford a good margin for savings, 
because Bometimes i1 i be offered in all seriousn< 

by men who are sincere and liberal, Too often it is offered 
by men who show no disposition to provide the liberal 
salary required. The emphasis se ins to be on the savingB 

and not on the salaries, as if the end really BOUghl were to 

gel rid of responsibility for the support of retired minis- 
ters. No thoughtful man offers this plan as a measure of 

economy. It is the mo>t expensive proposition ever pro- 
pounded, if it is to be made genuinely effective. A salary 
which, by pinching economy under favorable conditions, 

will yield little savings for a very frugal man is not enough. 



BT-PRODUCTS OF THE MOVEMENT 1 LS 

For this man a salary must be paid which will permil the 
ordinary man without cutting his living e below the 

Level of efficiency to Lay up enough to keep him in comfort 

r his working days arc over. It' tin 1 minister has saved 
enough to keep him in comfort Ham it is because the 

>unt over and above a comfortable living has been paid 
him v church. If is held in his own nana 1 as his own 

possession and at his death passes to his heirs. In this way 
the church loses all further benefit from it, and must imme- 
diately begin to provide a like sum for the man who fol- 
lows him. [f the church either as an organization, or by 
its individual members, holds this sum in its own posses- 
sion, paying the income of it to the retired minister, then at 
his death it may begin to use the same funds for the 
Support of another man. 

This proposition is not only expensive but displays 
embarrassing gaps. Such a man is not to he reproached for 
his deficiency in this respect any more than is the man who 
eloquence to be reproached for his deficiency. Tu 
spite of admonitions and reproaches some men seem never 
acquire the gift of acquiring. Other men are the victims 
of persistent or repeated misfortunes which make savings 
impossible. If a policy were possible which would leave 
each man to care for himself with his own savings, it 
would simply condemn all men in these two classes to 
inevitable want. In spite of its outward show of justice, 
we >w cannot help feeling that for a preacher, who 

o a faithful servant of God and of the people, to be 
in want for the ordinary comforts of life, or to spend his 
last days in a poorhouse, or to he placed in the position of 
1 ecoming a dependent upon charity, would be an unseemly 
thing. 

But pass by these considerations and put the i>sue 
between these two policies squarely upon the point of 

dency. 

1 quote from an article relative to teachers' pensions, 
10 



146 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

contributed to the Outlook by Martha Bensley Bruere. We 
need scarcely do more than substitute "preacher" for 
"teacher" in order to make the article serve the purpose 
of this discussion, for the principle is identical and the 
facts parallel. 

"I have before me the family budgets of a series of 
high school teachers and college prof^ men on salaries 

ranging from (1,200 to $4,000 a year, and living across the 
country from Maine to California. In every case but one it 
is easy to see how old age and the fear of it is like 8 
paralyzing hand to mar the efficiency of their hom 3. The 

r of the tly way 

to provide )''r (he future, and tends to below the 

efficiency line I liberty to 

spend on their homes and their proi 1 equipment*" 

Two items from the budget of a high school teacher 
receivh 1,800 a year i re I osuranee $140, 

Savings 25. Tl ml the drain on the 

family ide for the future. The 

insurac for the family in case of death 

of the I read-winner, and would probably yield scarcely 
enough to provide a home, The hank item represents a 

i large for its purposes. If it 
were for thirty years, with no draff for sick- 

ness, ]!<>:)• \ accidenl or other emergency, it 

would scarcely ire than enough to provide an 

income of $400 a year. I punst these items pu1 the 

following from the same budget: "Food, $180; Papers, 
Ma: I : Vacation, $50." 

Prom a letter of a pr \ hich accompanied 

budgel the following excerpts are taken: 

"You will Bee from this schedule thai it is absolutely 
necessary that I Bhould do all my work, including my 
laundering. Trying to pu1 our children through eastern 
colleges was too much for w me of us, I'm- 1 have been under 
a severe mental strain, and our daughter lias been in «'i 



BY-PRODUCTS OF THE MOVEMENT I H 

sanitarium for months because of a nervous break-down# 
"After my husband outlives his usefulness he and I will 
have to live on $250 per year." 

Tin* writer of the article asked the head of ;i great 
Bch hi t'n is question : "If you knew that you would 

hai osion for your old age, and thai your family 

would be provided for if you died, would it make any dif- 
ference in your work t" Sisai jwerwas: "It would m; 
me thirty — no, forty — per cent more efficient righl now. 
The thought of what might happen to them, if I w< 

ipped, is a. ball and chain on my foot holding me 
l' ck Erom no end of things I might and ought to do." 
Dr. Henry D. Pritchett is quoted as saying: "A la 
proportion of the teachers in American Universities are 
1 in turning the grindstone of some outside employ- 
ment with one hand while they carry on the work of 
teaching with the other." 

Their first tion is, that it is not wise to raise the 

ie, much less to force the issue, between the hoarding of 
future necessity and its use for present efficiency. 
If we leave a man to depend upon his savings for his com- 
fort in retirement, inevitably we raise this issue. Xo one 
really expects the salaries of the rank and file of the min- 
isters to he raised to such a figure as will enable them to 
provide for all reasonable demands for ministerial equip- 
ment, and at the same time to lay up a sum that will 
enable them to secure their future beyond peradventure. 
There will be a COnstanl tendency to pare down investment 
in efficiency to the lowest possible limit in order to allow 
incr investment in pg. The loss of efficiency 

which results Erom the diversion of money to the savings 

• nly a part of the Loss. There is a savings policy 
which involves a certain efficiency wasl , I do not 

undervalue or oppose economy. A wise and well-directed 

lomy is in itself a wholesome exercise. But it must have 

behind it not the lash of a motive which is a consumer of 



148 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

nerve force, but the exhilarating push of a motive which of 
itself is an inspiration. An economy overdriven by the 
fear of want is likely to waste over savings, time and 
energy that ought to be expended in production. In I 
period of my ministerial apprenticeship a young man cam-. 1 
to my study with the familiar hard-luck story, "Out of 
money and out of work." His immediate needs were met. 
He claimed to be a carpenter, and I persuaded a good- 
natured contractor to give him a job, A few days later I 
asked him about the young man. "Tint fellow!" said 
contractor. "1 tired him." "What for!" T asked. 
"Wasn't he a L r ""d workman ?" "He was a good enou 
workman. I Bred him for picking up nails. Every time he 
dropped o nail I to pick it up. 1 told him to lei 

the nails L r <>. fi r his time was worth more to me than the 
nails. After I had told him a dozen times and he kepi on, l 
fired him. I couldn't afford to pay a man carpenter's 
wages to pick up nails." It is no exaggeration to say thai 
today our churches are requiring the preacher to provide 
for his own comforl by "picking up nails." The proper 
direction E >my to take is the effective 

Lnvestmenl of his Balary for the enrichmenl of his min- 
istry. Sis Balary oughl to be estimated with thai in view. 
Any considerable amount beyond thai is almosl sure to 
result in the impairment of mi .1 life and service. As 

the soldier, bo the minister oughl nol to i-Awy too many 
to. Brethren, if we wish to claim a soldier's 
pension, we mual acce] ondition service. 

to this lies the vivid suggestion in almost ever;. 

se extracts of the superior efficiency of the man 

who is freed from anxiety as to the future COmforl of 

him df and his family. The minister's efficiency depends 

ultimately upon the condition of his nerVOUS system. A f< w 
men may scout this statement as failing to give due honor 
to the Holy Spirit; hut only a few and they have not 
Wisely Considered this matter. There is no way l>y which 



/:)' PRODUCTS OF TBE MOVEMENT 1 L9 

the Holy spirit can come into a man's life and be passed 
on to other lives without being transmitted over thai mys- 
terious complex of living wires, the nervon del H 
they are worn or broken or grounded, the trail oi 
the divine message will be obstructed. We have to consi 
not only the familiar physical truth thai whatever con- 
• >rce or depr* pvous vitality lowers both 
mental and physical efficiency, but also the surprising 
spiritual truth that the waste or weakening or breaking of 
the nervous system hinders the working of the Holy Spirit 
by marring the instrumenl through which He must operate. 
The way to avoid this impairment of efficiency is to lift 
the burden of support in age from the minister's mind by 
pledging the church for it and backing the pledge 'with 
the i py cash. 

Let us apply to this problem another familiar fact, the 
I of efficiency through a division of interest and atten- 
e minister must provide in any considerable pari 
for his old age he cannot have an undivided mind. At this 
point we are confronted by the fact that for the average 
minister to provide for himself through his savings only is 
practically impossible. Men do not come to the possession 
of a competency by the mere accumulation of savings, but 
by the growth of savings through profitable investment. 
Savings alone are not sufficient. This is why the man 
who has only his savings to depend upon never quite gets 
fear out of his heart. The profitable investment and imm- 
anent of \ divides time and energy. The mini 
who is involved in business enterprises and loaded with 
busine ties cannol give himself wholly to the work 
of the ministry. The drag of tin* outside interesl never 
[f the mi:i' ieks to unload this burden by coin- 
ciding the managemenl of his savings to someone else, 

lie will still to be on his guard lest the manager shall 

manage to absorb the bulk- of the profits, to say nothing 
of the original investment. One of the saddest chapters 



150 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

in ministerial life is that which contains the record of the 
tragedies and failures that have resulted from attempts of 
ministers to build up their pitiful little savings into a 
competency — men who have been Stripped of their savings, 
men who have been stripped of reputation, and men who, 
retaining a me E both, have been lured on until their 

lives were emptied of spiritual power while they, like Sam- 
4 not that their strength was departed from 
them." The tragedy of the men who have sought to escape 
poverty over this road is more hitter even than the tragedy 

of t: ho, knowing and 1. have gone Stead- 

Easl ly on, uol pleasing themsel 

Not Le Q, though often I I, is the 

into the 
minister's business. Every backward pull of 

dread I ipon a man's aervOUfl and spiritual 

on- itowmenl of Into rest upon a rival enter- 

pv'i d the growth of ministerial power ami 

ha • 'progress, which proclaims the 

ad-line. I have in mind a minister, one 
tinr imination, who when in his prime 

Eor his old age. In a tew years his ac- 
ceptability and usefulness were gone, and he lives discon- 
tented and un] at rich; and 1 have in mind an- 
other mi kite, and who wallas about in a 

bod} itude and movement the tra 

of age, but v. I I to preach with accepta- 

bility and • until he falls in the midst of hi- 

ll ; into his one sacred busin 

and he is a- useful and happy and poor as any mini 

has a right to 1 <\ The plan which i a nam either 

to forego comfort in age or to use up life in the attempt 

to build his saving rtable fortune, which cuts 

a man' iency just when he ought to be at the 

zenith of hi. os< Eulne 9, thus robbing the church of years 

of service, i> I QOmy. A life divided and wavering 



BY-riUWrCTS OF THE MOVEMENT 181 

between two interests never comes to its best. Bn1 b life 
which v.'iih perfeel abandon pours its full intensity of con- 
centrated energy into the work of the ministry experies 
an accumulation of power until the body be| ibly to 

fail. 

We conclude that the long tried, patching-oul policy 
is impossible Cor adjustment, humiliating to the ministry, 
unworthy of a great and self-respecting denomination, and 
ght to be abandoned as speedily as possible; that the 
policy of requiring the minister to care for his own coin- 
fort with his sayings will either seriously reduce ministerial 
equipment and efficiency without really providing an ade- 
quate support, or will require an increase of salaries which 
passes the bounds of reasonable expectation; and that the 
only righteous way out is to pay the minister a good, work- 
ing salary while he w T orks and a living pension when he 
becomes old. 

HELPING THE YOUNG MINISTER 

Dr. B. II. Dement 
President Baptist Bible Institute, New Orleans, La. 

EVERY true Christian has a deep interest in the young 
preacher. For he has been the object of many a prayer, 
first in li is becoming a Christian and second in his becom- 
ing a minister. Many are the loving eyes that watch his 
steps, and the faithful hands that would lead him in the 

. If.- is called of God for a work that angels would be 

d to do. Thus he is honored of heaven and ordained 
to be a blessing on the earth. Good people instinctively 

lize that he has the highest mission man can be called 
upon to discharge. 

When Andrew Jackson was President of the United 
States, a minister went to Washington to secure a govern- 
ment appointment. At a personal interview the President 



152 VETERANS OF TEE CROSS 

propounded this question: "Sir, may I ask what is your 
calling ? " "I am a minister of the gospel, ' ' was the answer. 
"Ah, then," replied Old Hickory, "you already occupy a 
position higher than any I have in my power to bestow." 
The verdict of the President is the conviction of Christian 
people everywhere. 

The true minister of the gospel is called of God to a 
special work, and cannot fulfill the divine purpose of his 
existence apart from 1 lie ministerial vocation. 

It should be remembered that a divine call to a great 
task implies a divine call for adequate preparation to 
discharge the duties which that task imposes. God nol 
only ordains the end but also the means by which thai end 
is to l»e accomplished. •' ot only chose the twelve 

to become apostles, but also prescribed that they should be 
with Him and learn from Him. 

The young preacher shou vital demonstration of 

the • ima Example is mightier than pre- 

cept. The life is mure powerful than the lips. Emerson 
put it I "What you are thunders 

so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say." An old 
adage expi same thought, "Actions speak louder 

than words." 

Watchfulness musl I a the constant practice of the 
young ; •. Satan especially de ires to sift ministers 

as wheat. Jt i I >r1 to know that Christ prays 

for them, that their faith fail not Let us watch while 

Christ prays, and not forget to Unite our prayers with His. 

The prayer 1 r is the citadel of his 

strength. Daniel was clad in triple Bteel as long as he 
prayed three times a day with Ins face toward Jerusalem. 
Jesua Bel a p i cample for His people in their life of 

prayer. He not only taught His disciples how to pray, 
but He showed them how to pray. 

He 0Ugh1 to set a watch about his lips, lest they mar 
rather than heal. Every idle word that men shall speak 




BYRON HOOVEK DEMENT 



Byron Hoover Dement, clergyman; bora Silver Springs, Wilson 
County, Tennessee, May 17. L863, bob of John Henry and Nancy 
Jane (Mora graduated from Peabody College (then 

University of Nashville), L885 scholarship medal); Btudent Univer- 
sity of Virginia, l s ^ ebater's medal); Th.D., Southern Bap- 
tist Theological Seminary, 1900; D. D., Baylor University, Warn, 
Texas, Lfl 3. Married Maggie Ellen Nicholas of Nashville, Tennes- 

. January 3, i v Ordained ministry missionary Baptist Church, 
L886; pastor 22nd and Walnut Street Church, Louisville, Kentucky, 
u^' practical theology and Hebrew; Baylor University, 

Waco, Texas, L903-4; pastor First Church. Waco, L904-6 (built 
church plant); professor S, S. Pi and assistant in Theology 

and Hebrew, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, 
Kentucky, 1906-14; pa tor P - i b. Greenwood, South Carolina, 

1914 17; first president, Baptist Bible institute, New Orleans, since 
1917. Wrote Sunday School Lesson cotes for Baptist World six 
i; member Sunday School l.< i ttee, 8 thern Baptist 

Convention, also member Baptist Pi is B reau. Mason I K. T.)« 
Contributor many articles to International Standard Bible Encyclo 
pedia. In Europe, Egypt and Palestine eight months, 

r.'ii'. Memorised entire Ne* T< enteen. 

Has Berved as member of s, :i''' Mission Board in Kentucky, 
Texas, So tn Carolina and Louisiana. Contributed numerous articles 
to papers and periodicals South and North. Doctor's thesis written 
on tin* Covenant Code in tin* lighl of higher criticism; prepared I 

• senior work for Sunday School Board, including Po ir volumes 
of pupil Btudy and four companion volumes for the teacher. Has 
red at many encampments, chautauquas, delivered numerous 
addresses in colleges and unr . commencement sermons, etc. 

Had charge of the Sunday school work at tfonteagle Assembly, Ten 
uessee, L911; lectured some each year at Ridj >r about ten 

onducted nun Is in churches in the country and 

city; served r in practically every type of church, from the 

small country church, the little mission church in the city and large 
city church of 1,400 members. I- now president of the Baptist Bible 
Institute of New Orleans-, where he has Berved for three sessions. 



BY PRODUCTS OF THE MOVEMENT 153 

they shall give BO account thereof in the day of j 1 1 « 1 lt 1 1 1 • - 1 1 1 . 

"Words fitly spoken are like apples of j~ r <>M in pictures of 
silver." tl A soft answer turneth away wrath; grievous 
Vis stir up anger." He should be "swift to hear, slow 
to speak, slow to wrath," realizing thai the wrath of man 
worketh no1 the righteousness of God. He should use a 
bridle tor his tongue, lest it, like a fiery steed, run 
away with prudence and make havoc of Christian influence. 

With reference to his duties, the young minister must 
give attention to "reading," both as a private means of 
information and a public means of edification; "to ex- 
hortation," as a method of inspiration for holy endeavor, 
and a comfort in periods of discouragement; "to teaching/' 
for enlightenment, stability and increased usefulness. 

With reference to his endowment the young preacher 
should develop his talent bestowed by nature, ennobled by 
grace, indicated by friendly, prophetic utterances, and 
symbolized by the laying on of the hands of the elders in 
public ordination. 

With reference to himself, the minister must take heed 
to his head — his thoughts; his heart 1 — his affections; his 
feet — his walk; his lips — his speech; his character — what 
he is; his life — what he is plus what he does. 

With reference to his doctrine, he must know the truth 
as it is in Jesus, believe it with all his heart, and teach it 
with all his might. His teaching must be orthodox, pre- 

ting straight goods, and sound, giving healthful food 
for mind and sold. 

The young minister should not despise the day of small 
things. Ofttimes what we call minor ethics become major 
factors in determining a minister's usefulness. The little 
coir and amenities of life ofttimes prove kqys to 

Unlock t BSUre houses of rich opportunities for sci- vice. 

The young minister should so live that not only those 

in the church, but also those in the world will recognize him 

as a man of ( lod among the sons of men. lie should be eon- 



154 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

siderecl the embodiment of veracity, integrity and spir- 
ituality, for he is the living representative of the God of 
truth, righteousness and holiness. The minister's word 
should be as good as his bond ; his honesty as transparent 
as the crystal: and his purity as clear as the sunbeam. 

The minister should be a good business man in the 

affairs of the church, for he is president of the church as a 

school, its pastor as a flock, and its head as a spiritual cor- 

ration for the promotion of the Kingdom of God. [f 

he cannot manage his own business aright, how can lie 

nduct the I of the house of God I 

The Bible teaches clearly that ministers of the gospel 
•ive a>! financial >r1 that they may 

give themselves wholly to the work whereunto they are 
called. Even - thai treadeth out the corn is not 

muzzled, and "the Laborer is worthy of his hire." The 
Lord hath ordained thai they thai preach the gospel shall 
live of the gospeL 

At hers have only a modest living which 

in the prima of life - them unfettered to make 

the mosl of their vocation. When a minister's productive 
period is past, the church's an 4 still under obligation to 

• that he has | late support Even hum; em- 

inent rappli I necessities of tl *e lives 

have been spenl in Its Bervice, Surely the people of God 
as humane and philanthropic toward their min- 
ivernmenl is toward its servai 

Justice and gratitude alike compel cur churches to pro- 
vide a comfortable and able Bupporl for faithful 
mil 1 whose lives have been unselfishly 
dedicated to their spiritual welfare and efficiency. The 
family horse is ao1 discarded with old age, bu1 cared for 
in the days of his infirmity. How much better are our 

ministers than OUT horses I 

Provision for our ministers in their old age, or period 
of disability, is not to be considered as an exacting charity 



//)' PRODUCTS OF THE MOVEMENT 

grudgingly bestowed, but as a Bacred obligation gladl; 
charged. Wisely have Southern Baptists acted in 
lishing a Relief and Annuity Board by which they are to 
fulfill, in some worthy measure, their obligation toward the 
veteran minister of the gospel. The plan appeals to the 
ri in both our churches and our preachers. [1 
Operative and Belf-respecting. It c< both bn 

1 fraternity. Reaping its benefits is conditional. The 
terms of the contract musl be met, this is busin 
are most generous, this is fraternil 
Briefly stated, the endeavor of the board is to pro\ 
members of the annuity fund a maximum of $500 a \ 

ter the minister becomes sixty-eight year old, and a 
disability annuity of $500 should lie become totally or 
permanently disabled before reaching sixty-eight years. 
'i'lie minimum amount is $100; the maximum is $500. The 
premium which the member pays provides the minimum 
of $100, which is one-fifth of Hie maximum ($500), and 
the denomination provides the other four-fifths, or #400, 
of the maximum. 

If our churches make liberal provision for the minister, 
have they not the right to expect a generous and willing 
Let the minister avail himself of the magnificent 
opportunity afforded by the denomination for his protection 
during old age or permanent disability, and in case he 
leaves a family, to insure for his widow and minor children 
a d and self-respecting support. In this way alone 

can we reap the benefits of fraternal i tion in the 

temporal affairs of the minister's life. 



15G VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

BRIGHTENING THE MISSIONARY'S OUTLOOK 

Dr. G. S. Dobbins 
Professor Church Efficiency, Southern Baptist Theological 

S< urinary 

GOD is a missionar that he sent his 

only Son to the world his redemptive plan. 

Jesus us lary Savior. He bo Loved that he eame 

from heaven to earth that he might save the lost. The 
Bible is a missionary hook. It reveals the heart of the 
Sender and tfa Sent, and is -hot through with tike 

imperative 

The missionary enterprise is the supreme, permanent 
business of the churches, The obligation i> equally bind- 
ing upon those wl called to go and those who are 
bidden to Bend. Those who go to the uttermost parts must 
ted by those wl at home; and those in the 
homeland who give their whole time to the service must be 
provided for by those who devote their energies chiefly to 

liar pursuits. 

There is i o example of mon lete and Christlike 

renunciation than that which the missionary mai For 
this reason we how in reverence before the h and 

heroines of the Cross who have rally denied them- 

en up t ! ! and follow I tat let 

ns not forget that these men and women are human. They 

arc ! by the outlook for the future JUSl BS oilier men 

and women. They bear burdens of n lility for their 

children and other dependents no [ess than their fellows. 
A young missionary, in a private letl ly, "It 

was all right until our little girl came. We did not worry 

over the fact that we Were UOt Baving a cent, hut often 

running a little behind. Bui now it is different We must 

think of OUT little one's future. " Ii i to set' how 

h natural and inescapable anxieties affect the buoyancy 




3. DOBBINS 



3, Dobbins was born ai Langsdale, Mississippi, on July l'9, 
L886. Bis father, Charles Wesley Dobbins, was a successful farmer, 
and later a hotel proprietor. JIi> mother, Letitia Gaines Dobbins, is 
yet living, e also f< a and one brother. When he was 

nine years i te family removed to Battiesburg, Mississippi, 

where he Bpent bis boyhood and secured his early education. At the 
age ol "••• «• Ik* entered a printing office as apprentice, and in sue- 
ed in al as printer and <m! it or — 

from ofl ge printing establishment, and 

from reporter t<» city editor of a daily aewspaper. 

While a student in M asissippi College ho was led to Christ 
through the personal influence of Prof. A. J. A.ven, and from the day 
i.t' hi- surrender began t<» feel the call to preach, which, however, he 
I t<> consider. Graduating from Mississippi College 
in 1908 with th<- deg flu, and with the distinction <>t' first 

honor man of hi- class, ho l acher of English and modern 

languages in South Mississippi I now Mississippi Woman's 

< lollege >, Hatl nities for < brist ian work ted 

leration <»t" the call ten, ami in 1909 he was 

licensed by the Immanuel Baptist Church. In tin- Tall of the same 
ered the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, grad- 
uate j - later with tin- in Theology. In 
1910 he was married to Miss May Virginia Riley, of Newhebron, 
M i ss i ss i pp i . 

o\fter Berving M ssippi, at Gloster ami at New 

Albany, he was elected t<> the editorship <>t Borne an □ Fields, 

an. I madi try of the Department of Missionary Publications, 

with 'li.' Baptist Sunday School Board, Nashville, Tennessee. In 
!!••_'" he was elected to the chair <»t' Church Efficiency and Sunday 
School Pedagogy in Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 

Louisville, Kentucky, to which work he i- now devoting his life. 



BY-PRODUCTS OF THE MOVEMENT 157 

of spirit, the hopefulness of outlook, the efficiency of service, 
of i i \i'n bo cons grated 8 man and woman as the mis ionary 
and his wife. 

The salaries of our home and foreign missionaries have 
always been small, and perhaps will always be relatively 

11. The willingness — yea, eagerness — of God-called men 
and women to preach and teach the glorious gospel of 

as ami win precious souls for heaven will cause them 
to waive personal considerations. On the other hand, the 
Mud is so great, the task so huge, that however much 
money may be placed at our board's disposal, they must 
make it go as far as possible in providing more and yet 
more workers. There is no complaint at this point. Not 
a missionary but would choose instantly more workers 
rather than more salary. Even if we should give salari 
that permitted a margin of saving, in nine eases out of ten 
the missionaries would give it away. 

What, therefore, is our plain, inescapable duty? We 
must provide support that will be ample for the comfort 
and efficiency of the missionary and his family during the 
period of their active service; and we must guarantee them 
a competency in the event of disability or death. Can you 
imagine anything more cruel, more unChristian, than the 
policy of permitting these brave, true soldiers of the Cr< 
to wear out their lives in the service of Christ and the 

nomination, and then leaving them unprovided for in 

1 old agel What more heartless and ungrateful 

return for the lifetime of service these men and women 

give can you conceive than that their dependent loved ones 

should at their death be left uncared for? 

We are calling for recruits. The open doors of the 
world i entered by an army of the hravest and best, 

the most devoted and consecrated youth of our churches. 
"The South and the World for Christ" is our slogan. 

]\l<»ney cannot take the place of life. Let us say to th( 

mg men and women: * k \Ye match vour lives with our 



158 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

money. You go down, we will hold the ropes." Let us 
relieve them of anxiety for their own future and the 
material welfare of their dependent loved ones. 

Bow may this best be donel The Board of Ministerial 
Relief and Annuity is the answer. A five million dollar 
fund would make possible immediate relief for those of 
our noble miss is who have suffered misfortune; it- 

would provi oje and retirement in com- 

parative con fort; it would protect their dependent loved 
th. Such provision would read upon 
our missionary en1 ises in a y. It would add 

new buoyancy and effect] those who are on the 

fields. I' old tumbling block from the 

path of many who w;mt to give their lives to missionary 
. but who are confronted with the nightmare of a 
dep . i r ,: e stern demands of obligations to 

others which they must di raid give our army 

of Christian soldiers oul on the firing line a new sense of 
ind( . i ah thai would mean 

greater agf er vision, more splendid vic- 

tori( 

After all, I the Belief and Annuity 

Board is i I The obligation to care for 

•id missioi 1 and in- 

ability and ol and for their 

widows and children in evenl of i i 4 is to support 

them while the; nnol repudiate 

one without th •. and it" we refuse either we forfeit 

our claim I I ( !hrist OUT Lord. 




PRANK SHELBY GRONEB 



Prank Shelby Groner, born in Collin County, Texas, January 3, 

i s 77; lather was William Christopher Groner, who is ^ t ill living at 
Loving, Young County, Texas; mother was Clemmie C« Dunnegan 
Groner, who died in 1905. Was educated at the North Texas Baptist 
College, Jacksboro, Texas, receiving an A. B, The institu- 

tion lias since suspended. Following graduation at the Jacksboro 
College, taught Bchool three years. Took law course at the Univer- 
sity I practiced law- fl Pour years of this time 
ney of Jack County. During the latter part of his 
two tern nty attorney h< e attorney for the Rock 
[sland Et. K. Co. and the Western Union Telegraph Co.j ami continued 
;i- such until (juittin^ the practice of law. 

He moved out of his law office iust at sundown, December 31, 

-. and preached his first Bermon in Stamford the fourth Sunday 
in January, 1905, and began a ; there which lasted seven 

years lacking two monthi wing this, became pastor of the 

Columbi Church, Waco, where he remained seven years, 

lacking four moi ' 

Married M m La ra Virginia Wyatt, June 30, 1903; have five 
living childrenj the oldest, a g 1, Willie Lee Groner, 16 years of 

: Edward Groner, 11 years: Prank S. Groner, Jr., 9 years: Laura 
Virginia Groner, ,; years; Pat Nfefl Groner, two months old. 

His the Executive Board of the Baptist 

Genera] Convention of Texas began .Inly 11, 1918, 

Positions of denominational trust: Presidenl of West Texas 
Baptisl Young Peo] es Assembly; presidenl of the Lampasas En- 
campment, two year-; president of the State Pastors 1 and Laymen's 
Conference, one year; vice-president of the Baptisl General Conven- 
tion of Texs ling secret f 1 be I taptisl Educa- 
tion Board of Texas, thro . b member of the standing com- 
mittee on Temperance and Social S P the fi thern Baptisl 
Convention, and al * chairman of the standing committee on 
Hospitals of the Southern Baptist Convention. 

Baylor University conferred the r of Divinity 

in 1915. 



BY-PRODUCTS OF THE MOVEMENT 159 

ENTERING THE BAPTIST MINISTRY what has 

THE rOUNQ PBEACHEB A RIGHT 

TO EXPECT! 

1 >;:. V. S. ( | 

Corresponding Secretary Executive Board, Baptist General 
Convention of Texas 

HPHERE are two ways of interpreting my subject. We 

-3- may construe it as meaning: What has a young 
preacher a right to expect if lie bases his expectation on 
the way the ministry lias been usually treated by the 
denomination? or, What has a young preacher the right 
to expect if the denomination which he serves is to treat 
him with proper consideration and accord to him his just 
dues! If my subject is given the first interpretation, then 
the young preacher entering the Baptist ministry may 
count on serving the denomination faithfully, remaining 
true to all its calls, and giving his best heart's blood to 
the spread of the gospel on a bare living wage and then 
come to his years of superannuation without a competency, 
dng utter privation and neglect, with no sort of support 
provided by the denomination to which he has given the 
years and best efforts of his life. 

With such a prospect before a young preacher there 

in his mind a reasonable doubt as to whether 

hi to enter upon such a career, if not a genuine 

viction that he should eschew a calling that promises 
nothing but poverty, neglect, and sheer ingratitude for 

rk faithfully done. 

But 1< 1 1 us consider our subject from the second view- 
point, namely: What has a young preacher in justice the 

right to expect when he enters the Baptist ministry- The 
ministry is the highest of all callings. He who enters it 
docs so under the overwhelming conviction that he is called 
of God to forego all prospect of worldly fame Or emolument 



160 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

and devote all of his talents and strength to purely altruis- 
tic ends, to the preaching of the gospel of life and hope to 
lost and wayworn humankind, and to the pointing of a, 
sin afflicted race to the world's one and only Savior. 
The minister is of a truth the servant of all. He feels 
that all his time and all his God-given - belong to 

the cause and to the humanity which he seeks to serve, 
and his denomination and the world think the same about 
him. For him to turn asi ! a day to make money is 

to imperil his reputation as a devoted and consecrated 
miniate He must seldom think of himself but 

ever consider the interests and needs o| oth( rs, lie must 
1 ge himself in 1 devotion of service, and when 

lie marries and raises a family tbey must Learn with him 
the lesson and live the life of sacrifice and self-denial. 

Out of the profoundesl depths of my heart I submit that 
when ti mination makes such demands upon its ser- 

vants thai in sheer justice it oughl to provide proper and 
adequate support for him during the years of bis active 
ministry, ahd al least furnish him with the nee - of 

a comfortable subsistence win n he comes to the years of 
disability and I at of old age. 

uj) remunerat ive oc< apations and 
entered the service of the government in the Great War 
are doI more deservini atefu] consideration than tin* 

liers of the l ain continuously at the battle 

front in the Christian warfare. Our Boldiers in Prance 
Berved tew months, but our soldiers in the Christian 

ministry serve all ears of a lifetime. Bui what a 

difference in the treatment they receive at the bands of 
those whom tbey Bervel Those disabled in battle are pen- 

ied by the government and when old age comes on 

they all are pensioned Bui our veteran and disabled 

ministers, though tbey bear tbe marks of hardship and 
exposure, and though their forms be Stooped 'neatb tbe 

gathered burdens of lengthening years, there is for them 



BY-PRODUCTS OF THE MOVEMENT 161 

no pension, no plaudits of "well done" by those who have 
been the recipients of their toil and labor of Love. How 
long, oh, how Long, can this indictment stand against a 

great Christian denomination I 

The railroad companies pension their retired veteran 
employes. Great business concerns arc doing likewise. 
Did not the Master teach that the laborer is worthy of his 
hire? Shall our denomination that makes bo much of 
orthodoxy continue to he utterly heterodox in its attitude 
toward this solemn precept and teaching of Jesus? 

I wonder if it is not a question as to how long God 
will continue to bless a denomination that so neglects its 
aged and veteran ministers. Let us repent of our wrong- 
doing and our gross thoughtlessness and face about and 
from this hour, henceforth, do our serious religious duty 
by the faithful and true as the evening shadows gather and 
deepen about them. 

Southern Baptists have taken up this subject of min- 
ist rial relief in a more definite and substantial way than 
ever in the past. The new Relief and Annuity Board fur- 
nishes a channel through which a just and proper provision 
may be made for our veteran ministers. It is going about 
this important duty in earnest and its helpful offices have 
already been felt in every section of the Southland. The 
opportunity which this board affords ought to provoke us 
all to the good works of generous giving to the end that we 
shall Speedily make amends for past remissness. 

We are suffering this very moment from a dearth of 
mil Can we not with better grace and with more 

faith pray the Lord of the harvest to send forth more 
laborers into His harvest if we shall now do our bounden 
duty by these laborers as the years come and [ 

In Texas alone there are around seven hundred pastor- 

] 3fl churches, numbers of associations without BSSOeiational 

missionaries, and great areas of country thickly populated 

which are destitute of the gospel. Oh, how we need preach- 
11 



162 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

era of the "Word with which to man these churches and 
these associations and to carry the gospel of hope and 
immortality into these sections of destitution and spiritual 
darkness. "Awake, awake; put on thy strength, Zion." 
As a result of our 175,000,000 campaign the funds are 
coming in and will continue to come in to finance a pro- 
missionary and evangelistic program. Our pre- 
eminent need now is men, God called men, to preach the 
and to !• ad in this holy warfare. Lei us with soul 
i pray for laborers; lei us call out the called 
until the church with the new blood of fresh re-enforce- 
forth mighty as an army with banners 
conquering and to conquer. 

Our ]>;• 9 can with all joy and happiness gTOW old 

in the 's service if they arc to be the objects of 

grateful ;iation and ample provision when their long 

and arduous warfare is over. Therefore, through the strife 
and battle of young manhood and middle aged, let us en- 
courage and help them ami in old a: r '' let us cherish and 

ing that "He that receiveth a 
p p] el in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's 
reward." 

THE PREACHER'S FAMILY 

By Dr J. !■'. I. 

Mi : n Board Southern Baptist 

I !onv< ntion 

|"T is doubtful if B correct evaluation of the minister's 

J- family has yet been made. Everyone who writes on this 

Bubjecl is und trainl lest he should offend the self- 

of both the preacher and his family. Ministers 

like all f character prefer f^v themselves and their 

families the ] rather than the pity of their neighbors, 

ami yet in any proper adjustment of Christian social life 

and approach to communal relations among Christians the 

preacher's family deserves special consideration. In some 




J. r. LOVE 



J. F. Love was born sixty-one years ago at Elizabeth City, 
North Carolina. Son of David and Amelia Love. Was educated 
at local school and Wake Forest College. Received honorary degr< 
from Wake Forest and Baylor. Ila<l considerable experience as 
pastor and later served as state secretary of Arkansas. For several 

irs he was assistant corresponding secretary of the Home Mis- 
sion Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, and since 1915 
has served as corresponding secretary of the Foreign Mission Board 
ern Baptist Convention. Be is the author of a number 
of books: ■'Spiritual Farming," "Unique Message and Universal 
Mission/ 1 "Baptisl Position and Position for Baptist/ 1 "Southern 
Baptist Pulpit/ 1 "Gospel in Two Acts/' "Mission of Our Nation." 
"Gospel for the Eye" J. B. Gambrell, joint author), "Union Move- 
ment.' 5 As secretary of the Foreign Mission Board has visited mis- 
sion fields in Europe and the Orient. 



BY-PRODUCTS OF THE MOVEMENT 163 

r68p6ctfl it is an exceptional unit in the social organization. 

The preacher's family sustains a unique relation to Bociety. 
In the Brs1 place the preacher is a minister to the com- 

munity. If he is to carry into Other homes that which will 

help them, there must he in his own home resources which 

will sustain the ceaseless draft which the community makes 

upon him. He receives from his family and the home life 
which the family maintains inspiration for his manifold 

ministry to others. The home is a reservoir of his resources 
of good cheer for the disconsolate and of compassion for 
the weak. lie goes forth from the heart of his family 
girded by its influences as a strong man to run a race. 
If the burden of financial care is allowed constantly to hang 
over his home, if he is forced by circumstance to see his 
wife grind out her life in fruitless effort to feed, educate 
and train self-respecting children, if he sees nothing ahead 
hut gray days for those whom he loves, he starts on his 
daily ministries empty of those hopeful views of life which 
a minister ought always to carry into the homes of the 
sick, the sorrowing and the sinning. 

Next to the church the minister's home ought to he the 
religious community's social center. Here those who love 
pleasure, those who are tempted, and those who are weak 
ought to find in the joyous family circle social ideals and 
a spiritual and moral tonic to flavor social and domestic life 
throughout the community. To furnish this those who ad- 
minister the home must to a small degree at least have 
relaxation from domestic drudgery and he able to provide 
mode.st home comforts and present a general air of re- 
spectability. The home must he a place of such attractive- 
ness as to draw to it the young people and furnish legiti- 
mate satisfaction to their instinct for social pleasure. The 
minister's home should he maintained so that all classes 
may find it a congenial meeting place, and those going 
out of the family shall he congenial and helpful com- 
panions to all those for whom the minister sustains re- 



164 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

sponsibility. It is by no means an unimportant piece of 
Christian work for a home to make Christian social pro- 
prieties attractive to the young. One such home to which 
the young life of a community is drawn is worth more 
than all the social clubs of the city as a promoter of the 
things for which a minister and a church of Jesus Christ 
stands. It costs less to maintain such a home than to run 
a club, but its cost is considerable notwithstanding, and 
we fear that many such homes of our ministers are main- 
tained at the expense of the future comfort of mother and 
children when the minister lias come from his pulpit the 
last time. lie and the good woman whom God gave him 

have furnished a social center for the community and an 

example of a Christian home at their OWU expense and 
out of an income from which nothing could be laid up for 
the rainy day. 

The minister must educate his children, or they will not 
be welcome companions for all classes which make up the 
membership of his church and the circle to which lie is 
ministering: Books, clothing, schooling, cost money, and 

all this must in m08f cases come out of the one source of 
livelihood — the minister's salary. The minister is a work- 
ing man whom the community will not allow to wear work- 
ingmen's clothes. He and his family must not in their 
dress oiTend the best classes in the Church and community, 
although they musl not live above any. If they do either 
he loses his influence. 

Much of the want of the poor converges at the minister "> 
home. Many congregations think thai the minister too 

frequently importunes them for charity, while few members 

of any congregation realize how many are the stories of 
poverty, sorrow and want that have their voice in the 
preacher's home only. The preacher realizes that he must 
not try the patience of his people by presenting too many 
objects for aid, while at the same time he must not be in- 
different to any appeals. "Wife and children come to know 



BY-PRODUCTS OF THE MOVEMENT 168 

What are quite tho becoming temper and altitude ol B 

minister's home toward the unfortunate. The appeals of 
these frequently do ool gel beyond the family circle, but 
are mel by such improvisation as a resourceful woman and 
tender-hearted children can summon and a meager income 

can supply. 

Again, neither the minister nor his family must be 
commercial. Others may make money, but the minister 

must not be a money-maker, and it will not help Ids in- 
fluence if his children are drilled in money making. That 
which is entirely proper in other men and in the children 
of others is quickly denounced in the minister and his chil- 
dren. For this reason the minister's family from first to 
last is at a commercial disadvantage. The same sort of 
provision that is allowed others cannot be practiced by 
him to insure his family against the day when he is no 
longer a producer for it. 

But that which perhaps more than anything else makes 
the minister's family an exception to any other family in 
the community is the change of relationship to the com- 
munity which is produced by the minister's death. While 
he lives, his family has, by reason of his ministry, a larger 
and a more intimate relation to the community than the 
family of any other citizen. This is a happy circumstance 
for all concerned. The family finds its chief joy in its 
friends and in their visits and the exchange of visits, in 
the greetings at the church door, in familiar acquaintance 
with every household. The father brings to the tea-table 
every evening some warm personal greetings, some m 

je from a friend, some story concerning this one or the 
other of the large group of those who are known and loved. 
This is one of the home joys of the minister's family which 
other families do not have to the same degree. But pi 
ently the minister's health fails, or he passes suddenly to 
his reward, the connection with the community is broken. 
Now, at once the preacher's family passes into a compara- 



1G6 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

tive isolation unknown to any other family because no other 
family had such intimate and numerous contacts and is left 
With comparatively so few. The minister having no business 
partnerships, his family is not left with these few but 
strong personal ties which others enjoy. Then, too, the 
minister in his lifetime has, in following the call of God 
and the churches, probably broken all old home connec- 
tions which were dear to himself and his wife, has not 
lived in one community long enough for that community 
to claim his family after the first wave of sympathy caused 
by his deatli has pa sed. Tht' family must get out of the 
pan 80 that the SUCCCSSOr may occupy it, and most 

likely will hav to some other community and start 

It La this Bense of isolation following upon a 

• and tender relationships that falls as per- 
haps the darkest shadow upon the minister's home when 
I.' i w< rk Led. 

It is jusl here that the Board Of Annuity and Belief 
! chief attraction and should commend itself 

to lie brotherhood. The work of this hoard is to secure 

to the minister's family, which will most likely face financial 
i immediately and tee! that the cords of brotherhood 

I fellowship have been broken, a small hut prompt and 

constant relief ami furnish with it a token of abiding 
fellowship. It provides, at Least, a small income and spares 

some pari awful pain of isolation at the loss of 

those relations which have heen the richest treasure of the 

family while the husband and father lived. At stated 
iry of the Annuity ami Belief Board will 
d to the homes of departed ministers tokens of the 
bonds of brotherhood which cannot he broken by death, and 
revive there the assurance in the heart of mother and 
children thai they are not alone and forgotten in the world, 
hut are still a pari of that brotherhood to the creation and 

strei ing of which their loved one gave the strength 

of his heart. 



VI 

THE GLORY OP THE MOVEMENT 

Give Them the Flowers Right Now 
Dr. Geo. W. McDaniel 

New Things for the Old Peeacheh 

Dr. John E. White 

The Services of a Preacher 
Dr. J. B. Tidwell 

Freedom from Fear 

Dr. Rufus W. Weaver 

The Aged Preacher's Last Mite. 
Dr. F. M. McConnell. 



1G7 



THE OLD PASTOR 

By G. C. II. Hasskari 

Ah! do yon still love him, still love him the same 
As when in the prime of his manhood he came, 
His heart all aglow with the message of love 
That comes from the throne of the Father above — 
With eloquent pleadings, with prayers and with tears 
To lead and to guide through the man of the years; 
A monitor faithful to lead in the strife, 
Till Christ is transfigured in heart and in life! 

A; • ' do you still care for him, weary and worn, 
strength now departed — a pilgrim forlorn — 
inset approaching] no shelter at hand, 

Where lo?e and Qfort their welcome extend? 

All! do you still love him, love him the same 

in the prime of hi- manhood he came, 
NOW wayworn and weary, like Simeon old, 
liting the suinmo- r the fold I 

With heart still like ronunerj with head like the mow, 
i i - ay - tar spent and ran declinei low ; 

; for the Master, the faat ebbing years 
Perchance— God forbid ow and r 

Hut do you still think of him, I0V6 him the same 

A- when in the seal of nil manhood he came — 
The prophet of God with Bvange] of P< 
With '"i-eauty for ash ." and sorrow 9 ! rareei 

j outh for hifl loved onee he gave, 
_ht after riches which often enslave, 

Like lYt. '• Of Old at the ' 1 '.eailt l fill Cat.-" 

He brought yon rich gifts when in sorry estate; 
And dow with hie noon day of earthly life i 

When dark looms the future, the sky o\. ivast, 

Shall want and diacomforl sore harass, distr* 

Him whose hand was l.ut lifted to help and to bit 

The ox went annranled when treading the corn, 
The locks of the wantoned unshorn ; 

Shall lie | all for the good of your 

Now suffer for lad of sweet Charity's dolel 
Remember, the cry of the reaper la known 

To him who is sitting on heaven'fl high throne; 

The Master has spoken, the sentence will I 

"WhateYr ye ha\e dene ye have done unto me." 

— From ll'aterbury American. 



168 




\VH ITi: M< DANIEL 



i,<n:^,. White McDaniel was born November 30, i s 7~.. in Grimes 

nty, Texas. Hia parents were Francis Asbury and Letitia White 
McDaniel. ll«' was educated in the public school of Navasota, the 
I '■< ton Male Academy, and Baylor University. He graduated with 
the claw of *9S al Baylor and thai of L900 in the Southern Baptisl 
Theological Seminary. Was married in i^' ,s to Martha Douglass 

rborough, daughter oi J ge John B. Scarborough of Waco, 
Texas. Two children, Mary Scarborough and John Harrington. Il<' 

eived the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Richmond Coll* 
Virginia, June, I thai of LL.D. from Baylor University, 

June, 1920, Has held three pi . Pirsl Baptist, Temple, 

Texas; Gaston Avenue, Da las; and Pirsl Baptisl in Richmond, Vir 
ginia, where he recently entered upon bis seventeenth year. Has 

ed aa a member of the Po eign M ision Board, Richmond College, 
and lenl of the Board of Trustees, and charter member of 

the Virginia Home and [ndustriaJ School for Girls. I- al presenl 
member of the Board of Trustees of the Southern Baptisl Theologi 
cal Seminary, state Mission Board of Virginia, Board of Trustees of 
the Bluefleld College, [s presidenl of the Baptisl Orphanage in 
Virginia, and the Genera] Association of Virginia, Has written 
three books, "Our Boya in Prance/ 1 'The People Called Baptists," 
and "The Churches of the New Testament. 91 Devotes mud time 
outside of his pastorate to educational and religious work, and holda 
occasional meetin 



T 



GIVE THEM THE FLOWERS RIGHT NOW" 

Da Geo. w. McDanibl 
Pastor First Baptist Church, Richmond, \;i. 

^HE world's ingratitude to its great men is surpas 



only by thai of Southern Baptistq to their needy 
ministers. Many of the latter belong also in the former 

for in the last analysis the truly good are th< 4 only 

truly great) and a double portion of ingratitude is their 
final earthly award. 

That this is lamentably true no one will deny. We 
should seek to fix the responsibility. It is probably three- 
fold — upon individuals, upon churches, and upon the 
denomination. 

Do the ministers who are at present old and out of 
service and indigent really deserve the support which now 
they need? Consider for a moment what you personally 
owe to the preacher who pointed you to the Way of Life 
and guided your .steps therein. Could any adequate earthly 
valuation be put upon the service which lie rendered? 
Then he came with you all along the way, through trial, 
doubt, discouragement and death — yes, death, for he com- 
forted your dear ones in their last hours, and helped you 
to bear the heart-breaking separation. Do you feel the same 
gratitude for your lawyer, your teacher, your family 
physician even, or anyone else, as for the godly man who 
was your pastor? No, you can never fully pay him — but 
you may in pari discharge the debt by helping to make his 
lasl days Comfortable, I do not say luxurious — and failure 
for you to do this personally when he needs it and you are 
able is the next most reprehensible thing to allowing a 
mother or father to suffer for bread when you dine on 
dainty fare. 

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170 YETEEAXS OF THE CROSS 

The churches owe a debt to their former pastors who 
may be dependent. This ought to be discharged in a way 
to show the old men that their services were appreciated 
and not make them feel like it is a charity. It truly isn't 
charity, for that implies giving something entirely because 
of need, and without the idea of any desert on the part of 
the beneficiary. The measure of success and influence which 
the churches now enjoy may be due to the unselfish service 
and untiring devotion of these very men. 

Then the denomination owes them a debt which it has 
been slow to recognize. The prestige and power of Southern 
Baptists today may be due, more largely than we know, to 
the B in the pa8l of men who are to. lay without a 

competence. Common he y nothing of kindness 

or love, demands that we, as a denomination, take care of 

those who took care of as and made us what we are. If 
individuals and churches are derelict in this duty, the 
denomination is all the more responsible. Isn't this a duty 

almost ;is Bacred as that to the aged father who, with dim 
B and bumbling lips, says to us ■ 

"T. With* red hand in yours, 

Children of my bouI, 
Father's heart is craving love, 

Father's growing old. 
Bee tl of many yean 

Crown my farrowed brow,— 
A - Pv€ loved and eared tor you, 

Love sad keep me now. 

"Lay your hands apon niy head, 

li cannot be for long— 

Pve h. ing weak the while 

JTou've been growing Btrong; 
I have toiled ami prayed for you, 
Ask n<>t why or how,— 

A- Pve loved and petted you, 

hor> and 04 I PIN PHWt W 



QL0R7 or THE MOVEMENT 171 

Post mortem praise, Like all other things posl mortem, 
eannol possibly do any good to the one who is dead, no 
matter how careful the examination, how professionally 
accurate the report, how correct the diagnosis, if the per- 
son is dead it is too late. Post-mortem examinations may 
possibly be some aid to the living, but not so with post- 
mortem praise, George Eliot says, "It is a Bad weakness 

in us, after alt, that the thought of a man's death hallows 
him anew to us, as if life were not saered too, — as if it 
were comparatively a light tiling to fail in love and 
reverence to the brother who is climbing the toilsome steep, 
and all our tears and tenderness were due to the one who 
is spared that hard journey." 

Some years ago an aged minister, poor, unkempt and 
lonely, called to see a young mother who held her first-born 
son in her arms. The godly man looked on a while in 
silence and then said: "Well, my daughter, the little fel- 
low nearly cost your life — you didn't know how nearly. 
Do you suppose he will ever be able to repay you?" "Oh! 
yes, Doctor," she replied, as she hugged the wee bundle to 
her breast, "he will be worth it all, and will repay the 
world, for he is going to be my preacher hoy!" The old 
man looked solemn and so pathetic as he replied, "Well, 
he may pay the world, but be sure the world will not 
pay him. Maybe by that time, though, they will treat old, 
worn-out preachers better. God grant it!" As he walked 
away with his hands folded behind him he personified 
Loneliness and Neglect. A while ago they buried him here 
in America, — they disinterred his remains and brought them 
from across the ocean, where he died, and with pomp and 
ceremony, amid thousands of spectators, a great funeral 
was held. A faultless monument marks his resting place, 
and now the world remembers that he was a great scholar, 
a great college president, a great preacher. One is re- 
minded of the words of Burns' mother, as she exclaimed, 



172 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

on seeing his monument, "0 Bobbie, Bobbie, you asked 
them for bread and they gave you a stone!" 

Recently in a Southern city there was buried from the 
church of which he was formerly the pastor one of the 
most eloquent, distinguished and really powerful preachers 
the nation has ever produced. He had dropped out of 
public view, and alas! also out of the memory of his 
friends apparently, for the "newsy" on the street who 
cried the extra said, "Gee, he's got everything pushed off 
the front page today, — his picture in the middle and big 
print all around, hut where's he been all this time?" The 
heard to say that at no funeral since that of the 

■ millionaire of the city had there been such a display 
of lovely flowers, — "Why, at a very conservative estimate 
they mnst have cost fifteen hundred dollars!" Some who 

. the magnificent array know that the dead preacher's 
- hill, the d - hill, the medicine hill had not 

bee] tor monl ; the disconsolate widow had not a 

dollar towards the caskel I 

I - imetimes wonder if many of OS do not use the floral 

Ting at a funeral as a sort of "placebo" for our troubled 
cor Such a COUTSe may be a heautiful trihute 

to onr Bentiment, hut it is a sad commentary on our justice 

and judgment Don't try to Square your account witli a 
hunch of white carnations. The flowers themselves are all 
light, — -'Mid them along as often as you can, — and, since 

they brighten up the grave only for those on the outiide, 

see to it that you send them in time. 

- not soe the white ri 

I Id bands cannot hold them, you know; 
Breath that is stilled cannot gather 

The odors thai sweet from them blow. 
Death, with a peace beyond dreaming, 

I fcs children of earth doth endow; 
Life is the time we can help them, 

So give then i the tlowers right NOW. 



OLOBT or THE MOVEMENT 178 

"Hen we the straggles and strivi 

Here are the earee and the faai 
Now is the time to be smoothing 
The frowns and the (arrows and team 

What to closed cars are kind savir 

What to hashed hear! is deep von I 
Naught can avail after parting, 
Bo give them the flowers right NOW. 

"Just a kind word or a greeting; 
Just a warm grasp or a smile— 

Those are the flowers that lighten 

The burdens of many a mile. 
After the journey is over,— 

After faint bands drop the plow, 
What is the use of them, tell me? 

So give tbern the flowers right NOW. 

"Blooms from the happy heart's garden, 

Plucked in the spirit of love; 
Blooms that are earthly reflection 

Of flowers that blossom above— 
Words cannot tell what a measure 

Of blessing such gifts will allow 
To dwell in the lives of the preachers. 

So give them the flowers right NOW." 



NEW THINGS FOR OLD PREACHERS 

Dr. John E. White 

President Anderson College; Pastor First Baptist Church, 

Anderson, S. C. 

HPHERB are four pictures of old preachers I have known. 
■*■ One may be seen on the study table of a well known 
Southern Baptist pastor. It is the picture of an old 
preacher of Virginia, whose name is a household word in 
that State, Past seventy year- of age, he sits with a little 
baby on his knee and a great smile on his face. The feature 



174 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

that makes this picture memorable is the fact that the 
baby is his very own. Through years I have carried its 
impression of happiness and liveliness. 

Another picture brings to mind an old preacher whose 
last years were increasingly useful. His devoted wife had 
inherited considerable fortune, and so with no problem of 
a financial sort, be was free to minister beautifully to the 
churches and to his brethren. His consecration and his 
helpfulness were the inspiration to all who knew him to 
the end of his life. 

Another picture is of a living preacher just now enter- 
ing the period of old age. Still very active, he faces the 

years that are left him without anxieties, lie says that 

Cod has guided him e was a very young man to 

prepare himself for a happy life as an old preacher, through 
a carefully wrought out provision of life insurance taken 
out before he was thirty years old and now paid up amount- 
ing to $30,000, which provides the basis of income quite 
sufficient tor his needs. 

These pictures have convinced me that old preachers 

can be y^'vy much alive and very happy. It could he wished 
that they were typical, hut they are not. 

The fourth picture is before me. I love that man and 
I am distressed aboul him. lie turned from a profitable 
business when pasl thirty years Of age to enter the ministry. 

lie lias wielded a powerful influence throughout a half 

do/en counties. Having a small family of his own, lie used 

his not too generous salary to help young men who were 

Studying for the ministry. He found them in his churches 
and sent them forth to preach the gospeL Now he is an 
old preacher, hut I fear not a happy one. lie has no income 
and actual necessities have more than once thrown shadows 
over the p;ist and over the future. His long consecration 
mis to have won from his brethren only affectionate in- 
difference — his thorough unworldliness is answered by the 
worldliest neglect. 




JOHN ELLINGTON WHITE 

Dr. John Ellington White was born in Clayton, North Carolina, 
December 1!>, L868. Be is the son of James McDaniel and Martha 
(Ellington) White. Jle lias the A. P>. degree from Wake Foresl 
College, L890j D. I)., from this same institution, and also from 
Baylor University, 1910. Be married Effie L. Guess of Cary, North 
Carolina, October 12, L892. Doctor White was ordained to the Bap 

tisl ministry in 1892. He has served as pastor of the First Church, 

Edenton, North Carolina, 1893-6; secretary of missions of the Baptist 

BtatC Convention of North Carolina, 1 s, .»<')- 1 90 1 ; pastor of Second 
Church, Atlanta, Georgia, 1901-16; First Church, Anderson, South 

Carolina, and president of Anderson College since 1916. Doctor White 
is the founder of the present Bystem of Baptisl schools for moun- 
taineers. \\r is president of the Clifton Conference for Negro 
School-; president, Georgia Baptist Board of Education; first nee 
president of Southern Social Congress. Be was the stated preacher 
and lecturer at the University of Chicago, L914 16, 

Doctor White is the author of the following books: "The Silent 

Southerners," "My Old Confederate," "The New Task and Oppor- 
tunity of the South," "Southern Bighlanders." "Thinking White in the 
South" i Phelps Stokes Lectures in University of Virginia), and "A 

Yielded Pacifist." Hi- address is Anderson. South Carolina. 



GL0R7 OF THE MOVEMENT 178 

Prom this picture true to life it is some pleasure to 
turn away to the Southern Baptist Convention with the 
confidence that it lias set about to abolish such pathetic 
spectacles. I Bee the great banner in the air on which I 

read : 

NEW THINGS FOR OLD PREACHERS 

I. 

A New Day for the Old Preacher 

It is a new day for all Baptist causes and concerns in 
the South. "It is the day the Lord has made; let us re- 
joice and be glad in it!" Southern Baptists have launched 
out into the deep. There will be no more puttering in 
the shallows. Great wealth and with it the consciousness 
of great power has come upon the people. The joy of great 
programs has been tasted deliciously. The thrill of move- 
ment has gone down through the rank and file. This new 
day and this new people belong to the old preacher. He 
will not have to limp brokenly as a mendicant for public 
sympathy. The tremulous appeal — 

"Pity the sorrow of a poor old man 
Whose weary limbs have borne him to your door," 

Southern Baptists will choke out of their literature. When 
the Southern Baptist Convention stretched out its strong 
hands at Hot Springs and Atlanta and pulled the cause 
of its old preachers on its heart, the day of new things for 
old preachers began to dawn. 

II 
A New CONSCIENCE for Old Preachers 

It would have been very strange indeed if the profound 
changes in human thinking and feeling should have passed 



176 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

Southern Baptists by. It would have been even stranger if 
responding to the world movement and pressing forth into 
transforming enterprises of missions and education, the 
Southern Baptist Convention had not included a thorough 
dealing with the problem of ministerial relief. 

"It was time it was done. It is a shame for a rich country 
like curs, probably the richest country in the world, if not the 
richest the world has ever seen, that it should allow those who 
have toiled all their days to end in penury and possibly starva- 
tion. It is rather hard that an old workman should have to find 
his way to tl - of the tomb bleeding and foot-sore, through 

l brambles and thorns of poverty. We have cut a new path 

through, and one, a pleasanter one, through fields of wav- 

ing corn." 

These words, spoken by Lloyd George to the IIou.se of 

as he introduced his famous budget of April 29, 

L909, waa the expression of a new conscience in civilization, 

B conscience fundamentally Christian. With what multi- 
plied intensity does such an appeal come to such a Christian 
body as the Southern Baptist Convention, in view of the 
long neglect, the d and inadequate provisions of 

state convention, and the general lassitude of mind and 
hear! on the subjecl of old preachers. The appeal has been 
heard and a new conscience is on the throne of our councils. 

Ill 
A New Method fob Old Pbeachzrs 

The old method which resulted so inadequately lacked 
nothing of good intentions. In some of the states through 
the pa& • devotion of individual leadership, the old 

preachers were not allowed to feel thai they were utterly 
forgotten, but it was impossible to avoid the sense of 

humiliation and of being made the objed of pity in the 

very fervor of the appeals made in their behalf. The old 



0L0R7 OF THE MOVEMENT 177 

preacher was tenderly suspended before the public gaze 
in the rhetoric of pathetic tribute as a sorl of hero, but 
a hero in mendicancy. The young preacher did nol enjoy 
the contemplation of that sort of service tor himself. As I 
interpret the logic of our present Southern Baptist program 
for old preachers, the main emphasis will be shifted from 
their poverty to our power, from their necessities to our 
abilities. Their ease is to be lifted into the dignity of a 
cause, a eause not based on charity, but on justice, and 
not on justice merely, but on a wise foundation of policy 
for a more effective and longer sustained ministry of the 
gospel. The methods outlined by our board at Dallas indi- 
cate a movement of cooperation, beginning with the younger 
preachers to create protection against the wolves which 
have howled on the track of another generation, through 
their partnership "with the churches of the Convention. 
There exists in the vision of these plans no reason for any 
old preacher of the future to come to want. If he is 
willing to see that without absorption of his interest in 
money matters he can cooperate with the affectionate desire 
of the churches to protect him in old age, his way has been 
marvelously smoothed. lie will need no wealthy wife nor 
the expensive provision of ordinary life insurance to 
brighten his western skies and drive the clouds of old age 
from before his face. 



THE SERVICES OF A PREACHKK 

• Dr. J B. Tidwkll, 
Pro !' Bible, Baylor University, Waco, Texas 

nPllE wry mention of the subject which stands at the 

-*- head of this article thrills the heart and sets ones 

mind in motion. It brings to the fore some of the most 

sacred and most cherished of life's memories. A preacher] 
12 



178 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

What a blessing is a consecrated and godly Christian 
preacher ! Who can begin to value the worth of his varied 
and altruistic services. Committed as he is to a life of 
unselfish effort for the good of others, his life and labor can- 
not fail to be of vast profit to the community and church 
Where he servos. We do Well to consider some of his 
blessed services ami the obligations which they impose. 

Firsl of all it should be said that the people every- 
where recognize his value When he mores into a new com- 
munity and assumes the work of pastor, the best people 
of the community freely welcome him as a benefactor. He 
and his family are gladly admitted into the best social life. 

lb' stands forth as a new BSSCt and as valuable for all that 
is hot for the people BS a whole. It LS understood that he 
can be trusted and that he will be of genuine assistance 

to all the citizens about him. All the people, from the 
smallest child to the oldesl citizen, arc impressed with the 
fart that, there has come t<> live among them a man who is 
not to engage along with them in the ordinary pursuits of 

men, that he is qoI to he in competition with any of their 

business endeavors, hut is to he the friend of every legiti- 
mate enterprise. All are impressed with the unselfishness 
of his undertaking. They will he affected by the influences 

which he exerts and are interested in the work which he 
does. 

This work, however, is so varied that it is difficult to 

describe it, much less to tell of its value. First of all, he 
is there to Furnish the proper spiritual leadership. He 
puts chief emphasis on spiritual well-being and happun 
In doing this he performs a great variety of work and 

enters a variety of fields of labor and makes many points 
of contact with the people. 

Probably we should give chief place to liis work in 
connection with the public gatherings of the people at the 

house of worship. Here he makes earnest and fervent 
appeal to the congregations to live the higher life. The 




JOSIAH BLAKE TIDWELL 



Josiah Blake Tidwell, A. M., D. P.. was born in Blount County, 
Alabama, October s , l s 7n, the son of Rev, Francis and Ann (Cham- 
bers | TidwelL Boyhood on small farm and in a country custom 
mil] : I up timbered land, drove ox teams, hauling saw logs 

and making trips to market that required one to two weeks. Mar- 
ried Miss Kansas Eteid, April 24, 1887. Rented farm four years, 
clearing laud and ditching swamps winter and Bummer. Studied 
nights and rainy days an I . License to teach in public schools. 

Converted a little ars old, first of bis Immediate 

family to become Missionary Baptist. Pelt a call to preach, went to 

BChool t I at Wain I . then to Howard College, 

B rmingham, Alabama; A. I'... Eoward College, l s, . ,v ; made an ai 

le for ad i k a: Howard College of 

■ l". .\. M.. Baylor CJi . v. B io, T< ras, r." 3; D. P., Howard 

College, 1914 I k in the great onii Teacher 

I ek and Latin and b Decatur Baptist College 

Texas . l-'.'- 19 7 lowment 

etary, I '•.•■.;■ or Ui 19< 9 10, raising b $9 ',000, Pro 

feasor Bible, I i rsil L910. Has served as member 

of Baptist Education Board of Texas; executive board of Baptist 
General Convention oi n commission of the Southern 

Baptist Convention; publicity conn d Texas 

and for the Soul n Baptist Convention. [s trustee of the South 
- ; ^t Theological Convention, Port Worth, Texas; member 
of the executive con 8 ithern A of Baptisl Col 

>f committee of thi produce ( • 

books en Bible ami other religious tfi for colleges. A ithor of 

"An Outline for the Study of the Ldfe of Christ," "The Bible, Book 
by I The Bible, Period by Period/ 1 and "The Sunday School 

Teacher Magnified. 91 By request of the Southern Baptist Committee, 
lie i< now preparing volume i ment, Will Boon publish 

volume on "The Gospels and Life of Christ.'* Contributes Sunday 
School Notes in Baptists . Dallas, Texas; eontributor to The 

Teacher, Nashville, T< • writer of many special articles. 

Speaker a* many college commencements and bj Lai college and 

seminary mi I. I per at institutes and religious assemblies 

in .*md i Texas. Conducts many revivals in >'immer, .">." 

having been baptized from such meetings. Taught ill stud' 
Bible last year. Two children >\*>:\>\, three sons and one daughter 
living. Married second time to Miss Minnie Lee Hayes, San Mar 
T< cas, September ~, L910. 



GLORY OF THE MOVEMENT 179 

value of these appeals cannot be calculated. Many have 
borne testimony to the fad thai they have thereby been 
deterred from rash and evil acts — some from taking their 

own lives and BOme from taking the lives of others. Who 

can estimate the value of the lives thus saved by the simple 

gospel i 

Bui I e i serts a still larger influence by stirring up the 
interests of the indifferent. His appeal lias often quickened 

the step of the slothful and has set the hearts and hands 
of the unambitious to work at some noble task. He has led 
the people to render unselfish service to others and thereby 
made them the benefactors of the entire community. 

Another word needs to be said concerning the many other 
influences which he exerts all around. lie enters the homes 
of the people and becomes an inspiration to the boys and 
girls found there. He sees and knows them .on the streets 
and becomes their confidant and friend and helps them in 
settling all those problems that vex them during their 
youth, lie guides them in seeking salvation in Christ, bap- 
tizes them when they come to the church, and performs the 
ceremony when they are married. In these services he is 
of genuine assistance to the parents and contributes to the 
happiness of the whole people. 

He does more than this. He attends the bedside of the 
sick and suffering and tarries to the end with the dying. 
He has for them all a message of confidence and hope. The 
sufferings of the afflicted are made easier to bear and ap- 
proaching death is more calmly met because of the word 
from God which he brings. When death has come and its 
dark shadow has been cast over the stricken family and 
community, no one else is quite so welcome a guest as a 
noble and consecrated preacher. No one else can so cer- 
tainly be a helpful and unselfish friend as can the preacher. 
So then, in happy childhood, in the joyous hour of mar- 
riage and in the sad hour of death he is alike the one on 
whom we are prone to lean. 



180 VETERANS OF THE CEOSS 

And what shall be said about those other and more 
indirect influences which he exerts. He stands for good 
and wholesome social relations and for safe and sane civic 
conditions. He is counted on as a leader in every move- 
ment to remove from the people whatever endangers their 
physical health, their social security or their state or 
national prosperity. 

In all this there is no manifestation of the selfish spirit. 
The preacher is gaining no worldly possessions. His scanty 
salary is expended month by month. He is not in business 
competition with any of the members of his congregation 
or others of the citizens. His efforts are on behalf of others 
and give no promise of gain for himself. lie tries to edu- 
cate his own children and according to his means generally 
succeeds quite well in that undertaking, but it is all the 
time clear that he can never give them an advantageous 
start in bnsinec her men do for their children. Such 

a spirit of unselfishness is nol to be found in the average 
man of the community. 

It is no wonder, in the light of all this, that people have 
often been heard to say, "I would not live in a place where 
tin-re is no preacher and church." Preachers are the 
world's greatest benefactors. They contribute to it not 

money, but a new and ( 'bristly spirit ; not houses and lands, 
bul men and women of worth. 

And what debl is due them? Like other men, preachers 
die. They generally leave their children with no means 
with which they may he assured of support and of an edu- 
cation. And what about the wifel Shall she, because she 
was the wife of a Baptist preacher, have to suffer for the 
necessities of life? And his children. Shall they go hun- 
gry and be deprived of an education and of an even chance 
in life with other children for no reason than that they 
were the children of a Baptist preacher 1 And what about 
the preacher himself? He may become afflicted so that he 
cannot longer serve. Or he may live to be old and thereby 



OLORT OF THE MOVEMENT 181 

become incapacitated to serve longer. Shall he and his 
good wife, who has stood by him in all bis Labors of love, 
be compelled to suffer, just because ou1 of conviction of 
duty he chose to be a Baptist preacher 1 

Think of it! Suffer wanl for having been a preacher! 
Our hearts rebel at the suggestion! And yet that is what 
has been happening all over tin 4 South. That is what will 
continue to happen unless our churches shall wake up to 
such a condition and to their responsibility and their 
shame. Here lies the explanation of the hitter spirit toward 
the church found in the hearts of the children and kind: 
of some preachers. They and their families have served 
the church and denomination and in affliction and death 
have not been provided for. They deserve better treatment. 
They must have it. 

Just this is the purpose of the Board of Ministerial 
Relief and Annuities. It proposes to create a relief fund 
out of which some of these good men shall be supported. It 
proposes to provide those who are active in service with an 
annuity so that at their age of disability their living may 
be assured. This far-reaching movement should have the 
loyal and undying support of all our Baptist people. 



THE FREEDOM FROM FEAR 

Da. Rufus W. Weaver, 
President Mercer University, Macon, Ga. 

HPIIE finest of all the fine arts is the art of growing old 
■*■ gracefully. No period calls for a richer measure of 
grace than the one in which the man who has led in spir- 
itual affairs steps down out of the pulpit to give place to a 
younger man. Every man who has known the thrilling 
experience of exercising power comes to a period when he 
must surrender what he has enjoyed. Age compels many 



182 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

a man of marked pulpit power to face the experience in 
which lie says, "I must decrease." For an increasing num- 
ber the giving up of the joy of active service in the min- 
istry is accompanied by poverty that is lunching, creating 
conditions in which the necessities of life are restricted, 
and the comforts are wholly denied. 

It is surprising that we should have allowed so many 
years to pass without recognizing our obligation to the 
aged preacher. The explanation is to lie found in the fact 
that a comparatively small number in the past were depend- 
ent upon friends and former parishioners. Our Baptist 
fathers in the ministry, as a rule, had large families. Their 
children were trained early in life to habitfl of thrift, indus- 
try and uprightness. Many of them attained success and 

distinction. "Who's AVlio in America" is our standard 

work of reference, furnishing as the names of those who 
have succeeded From a Btudy of the facts given in this 
work, it is shown that the son of a preacher has eleven 
times as many chances to make a success as the son of any 
other man. This is the outstanding reason why our aged 

ministers have not been dependent upon our Baptist 

churches in the past. The old preacher has spent his 

declining days in the home of his SUCCe8Sfu] sni. 

Today there is an increasing number of godly men who 

Cannot h>ok' to their Children for the aid that they need in 
their old a::.'. From whom should this aid COmef I'Yom 
the churches that they have Served, and from the denomina- 
tion which has grown strong and prosperous because of this 
service. 

The changes in our economic conditions have affected 

the salaried classes more than any other. Of these who 
are dependent upon Balaries, preachers and teachers have 
had the smallest increase. "While the cost of living has 
doubled, the advance in salaries for the ministry will not 
average twenty-live per cent. During this period the 
greatest campaign which Baptists have ever known has 




BUFUS WASHINGTON WEAVES 



Rufus Washington Weaver, born Greensboro, North Carolina, 
June 3, l v 7o, bob of Preston De Kalb and Elizabeth J. Porbis 
Weaver; B, A. and M. A.. Wak< P< resl College, North Carolina. 
L893; Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, L896-9; Th.M.. 1898; 
ThJX, L899; studied, Johns Hopkins University, 1905-06; Univer 
Bity of Cincinnati, L906-7; D. D., Wake Po L912; Bethel 

College, 1912; LL.K. Bayloi University, L920; married Airs, Char 
lotte Mason Payne, of Frankfort, Kentucky, January LI, L911. 

Ordained to tin- I . L893 ; pastoT the Salem Street 

Baptist Church, Bigh Point, North Carolina, 1893-96; pastor Porks 
of the Elkhorn Baptist Church, near Prankfort, Kentucky, l s( .»7 99 ; 
Pirst Baptist Church. Middletown, Ohio, L899 L903; Brantly Baptist 
Church, Baltimore, Maryland, . Mt. Auburn Baptist Church, 

Cincinnati, Ohio, L906-08; Immaniiel Bfl irch, Nashville, 

Tenn< — . L9< B 17. 

Chairman of the Education Commission, Tennessee Baptist Con 
mention, 1909 15; president Ed at on Board, Tennessee Baptist 
Convention, I'M" 17; \ Education Board, Tennessee Bap 

tCt Convention, 1917 I s : member <»t' the Education Commission of the 
Southern Baptist Convention, l'-'ii I s ; chairman, L918; adjund 
professor religious education, Vanderbilt University, L913 l"; presi 
dent, Southern Baptist Education Association, 1917-20; president, 
Mercer University, L918 ; superintendent, Christian education 
tor the Georgis Baptist Convention, 1919 ; chancellor, Mercer 
University System, L920 : member of the [lliteracy Commission 
of the State ot' < h 

Author: *ii I the Doctrine of [nspiration in the Eighth 

Century, B. < V - w The Christian Conversationalist' 1 (1903); 

"The Reconstruction of Religion" L9< I "The Logic of Chris 
tianity" L90€ ; "Th< Religious Development of the Child' 1 (1911 
numerous tracts and articles in the reli 



GLORY OF THE MOVEMENT 183 

been successfully carried on. The outstanding feature of 
this campaign has been the Raising of money, In every 
church the man who has made the greatesl sacrifice and 

given in proportion with his income with the largest lib- 
erality is tin* preacher. 

It is practically impossible today for anyone in the 
ministry to do what is expected of him in contributing to 

Kingdom work, to care for his family so that they may 
have B reasonable amount of comfort and to lay aside a 
sufficient sum to provide for the needs of old age. The 
most generous givers in our land face the infirmities of 
advancing years with the fear that they will not have the 
ordinary comforts of life. It might be possible for them 
to save a little more than they are, but the increase of their 
savings can be brought about only by the decrease of their 
giving. 

The denomination should meet the generosity of the 
Baptist ministers of the South with a response so cordial 
and so liberal that all fear of the future should be dissi- 
pated by the assurances of Southern Baptists that no faith- 
ful minister of the Gospel who in the years of his strength 
has sacrificed for the cause should ever know the humilia- 
tion incident to penury, and the anxiety that comes with 
want This assurance the denomination is able to give. 

The organization of the Relief and Annuity Board of 
the Southern Baptist Convention created the agency by 
which the need of every aged pastor who has done his part 
in bringing into power the Southern Baptist Convention 
may receive each year a sum of money sufficient to keep 
him from want. 

The plan by which he, his wife and minor children may 
he cared for commands the admiration of every prudent 
business man. The CO-operation of our Baptist people so 
that a part of the annuity will he eared for by the denomina- 
tion is only fair. The government provides pensions, and 
great corporations continue the payment of wages and >al- 



184 VETERANS OF THE CEOSS 

aries after a definite term of service. Faithfulness from 
youth to old age places upon the denomination the inescapa- 
ble responsibility to give as his earned right a sufficient 
amount to take care of the aged minister. 

It is a fact that must be fairly faced that with the 
changed conditions under which we live each year, there 
will be an increasing proportion of men who no longer will 
be able to preach and who will need the assistance which 
our denomination may give. If we shall respond promptly 
and fully to the call of duty we will be able to assure all 
who enter the ministry that they may serve during the 
years of their strength, confident that in the years of 
feebleness and physical disability the people of God called 
Baptists will provide for their urgent physical needs. 

The Relief and Annuity Board exists for the purpose of 

giving to the Baptist ministry of the South "the freedom 
from fear." Tear weakens the strongest, incapacitates the 
intellectual powers, attacks and breaks down the moral 

forces, and transforms a saint into a sniveling weakling. 

The economic conditions are bringing to our preachers the 

fear of a future in which they will be unable to provide for 

their needs and for the needs of those they love. 

Freedom from fear will strengthen our ministry, ^ivinr; 

the courage that is needed, equipping them to attack 
heroically the evils of today and unafraid of the face of 
man to perform faithfully the duties to which God shall 
call them. 

The function of the hoard is to preserve the morale of 
the ministry, and as this is done the minister whose powers 

are waning, whose opportunities for service are limited 

more and more to gracefully growing old shall, supported 
by this agency which expresses the love of his brethren, 

exhibit in the closing days of his life a serenity, a resigna- 
tion and a joy which the world cannot explain. An essen- 
tial factor in the production of this personality in whom 
appears regnant the spirit of his Master will he the loving 



QLORY OF THE MOVEMENT L86 

provision which his own people are under moral obligation 
to make tor his physical needs in his declining da; 
Through the ministry of this board bis wants on earth will 
be met, bis spiritual needs will be satisfied through divine 
grace, and, as the time draws nearer for bis departure, be 

will know the joy of living in two worlds and radiantly 
happy in both. 

THE AGED PREACHER'S LAST MILE 

Dr. P. M. McConnejuL, 
Corresponding Secretary, Oklahoma Baptist Convention 

KNEW him personally. He and his old wife lived in a 
■* house at the edge of town. He had been a Baptist 
preacher for forty years and his wife had been his com- 
panion through all the trials of four decades. 

It must be said, in fairness and truth, that he had not 
taught the doctrine of stewardship as he ought. He shrank 
from it because his own living was involved. He was easy 
on the people and they did not respond to his needs as they 
should have done. It must also be said that he was not as 
careful with what money he got as he would have been had 
he been worldly wise. Being "unselfish it was his heart's 
desire to do good regardless of what came to him. 

Thus the years sped by. One mile after another was 
passed. He supplemented his salary in various ways; 
detunes by farming a little and sometimes by selling 
various tilings. He did not go whole-soul into any business 
:ause lie felt that he ought to preach and did not go 
whole-soul into the ministry because he feared the churches 
would not support his family. Every denominational in- 
terest had in him a true and loyal friend and supporter and 
he gave liberally to every good cause. 

The churches he served elected their pastors annually. 
After he reached sixty there was an increasing anxiety, as 



186 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

each year drew near its close, lest the churches should not 
elect him for another year. At first he would hardly admit 
it to himself; but still he felt easier when the election had 
passed and he was chosen again. Several times he over- 
heard members say they needed a younger pastor. They 
were kind to him and considerate of his feelings, yet he 
knew how some of them felt. Others were very kind, 
indeed, and he was led to believe that, upon the whole, he 
was an average pastor ami was doing as much good as ever. 

At length one of the churches deferred the election a 
month. He knew several of the members wanted another 
man. But others were so kind that he did not feel that it 
was bis duty to decline to allow his name to be considered. 
So he went on hoping ami praying that God's will would 
be el 

Tin* day came for the election of a pastor. He preached 

the rmOO he could, bu1 more than ever he realized 

that he was an old man. The indisputable fact sank into 

his sold. After the sermon he wenl to the nearby home of 
a deacon wjiile the church remained in business session. 
They stayed much longer than usual. When they ad- 
journed the good deaCOD went home and into the room 

where the preacher waa His face told the story. The 
preacher asked him whal was done and Ik 1 said: "They 
called Brother . It was not unanimous at first, but 

they made it unanimous M 

Other churches called him for a few years, but this 
experience was repeated with each one until finally the last 
church called a younger man. lie did not blame them for 
he loved the prosperity of the churches ami wanted them 
to have efficient, capable men; however, he was sure that 

in more than one instance they did not better themselves by 

the change. Bui now he was old and out of work. 

One oighl a. number of his friends came with groceries 

and other QecessarieS and gave him and his wife "a surprise 
pounding." They had a pleasant time and all were happy. 




I\ M. McCONNELL 



F. M. McConnell was born in Buffalo, Pallas County, Mo., October 
6, 1S62. His father was Joseph Marshall Mcl/onnell, and his mother 
Samantha Williams McConnell He was converted at Pleasant Hill 
Baptist Church, Carroll County, Ark., in l s 7i>, and licensed to preach 
by the same church in l ss l. He had an ambition to be a lawyer. 

and in 1885 was admitted to the bar in Zebulun. bike County, Ark. 
He was educated at Clark's Academy, Berryville, Ark., taking an 
average colleg n . gh eould not take a degree because this 

in-titution was doI chartered. 

While practicing law in baton. N. M., in 1886, the lawyer re 

solved to cIom- his office under the call of God to be a preacher. A 

tew months afterwards he went to Texas, and for a short time was 
compelled to teach Bchool because of lacs of ministerial work. He 

3 principal of the School a! Kem|» tor nine months. In l ss »'> he 

W8S ordained by the Kaufman church. His first pastorate was ( aney 

Church, in Van Zandt County. 

lb- was married to Miss Delia Friedly at Kemp. Texas, December 

'J. l vs, \ She lived t- ;ind died while lie \\a< pastor at Long 

view, A son livii g at Port Worth is the only surviving child of this 
union. Hi- - Miss I. nore Young of Longview. 

Resigning his ; at Weatherford, Texas, in L809, he 

devoted himself I elism and was in the evangelistic field three 

During B meeting at Brownwood, Texas, he waa elected pastor 

and accepted. He served here thret at the conclusion of which 

he again entered the evangelistic field. 

In March, 1,910, Doctor McConnell was elected corresponding s< 
tary of the B ' • serai Convention to succeed Dr. J. b>. Gambrell. 

Be held this position until December, L914, when the Board of 
Directors of the convention and the Education Hoard were combined 
and Doctor Gambrell elected etary. Doctor McConnell 

was elected as o f the assistant He held this position 

until May, 1915, when lie resigned to accept the position of superin 
tendent of the Department ol Evangelism <>t* the Southwestern Bap 
tist Theological Seminary at Forth Worth, lb- remained in this 

work until September .". 1916, when he accepted the work BE COr 

responding secretary of the Baptist General Convention <»t' Oklahoma. 
Under his leadership the denominational work in Oklahoma has gone 
forward with gratifying success. H. is also superintendent <>t" the 
Baptist Orphans Borne of Oklahoma, in connection with his duties as 
corresponding secretary. 

Doctor McConnell is the author of the following: "The Triple 
Appeal." "Winning Souls and Strengthening Churches/ 1 and "The 
Deacon's Daughter.' 1 This Last book was adopted by tne Campaign 
Commission of the Baptist 75 Million Campaign for distribution in 
the campaign. 



OLOBT OF THE MOVEMENT 187 

lie tried to be happy and bo did his wife, bul it was not 
easy, and when the crowd was gone his wife could not keep 
bark her tears, They knew their friends were good and 
kind; bul thai did nol destroy the fad thai they were qow 
the objects of religious charity. 

Several times after thai night, wagons would come with 
fuel, or groceries, and brethren would hand him or his wife 
small sums of money. He almost dreaded to meet them on 

the Street, lest they should think of his needs, and often 
when lie wanted to greet them cordially he shrank from 
it for Tear they would think lie wanted a gift. His children 
helped some, but they were poor and not able to do much. 
He and his wife did not enjoy going to church as they a 
to because they felt that they were objects of charity. 
Often he wished he would die and go on home. lie would 
have wished it more had it not been for his good wife who 
had helped him through all the years. Her infirmities were 
increasing and he wanted to stay with her and comfort her 
the rest of her life. 

One day he got a letter with the name and address of 
the Corresponding Secretary of the Board of Ministerial 
Relief and Annuities on the upper left-hand corner. It 
contained a check for a larger amount of money than he 
had had since the last church had elected the younger man. 
if- 1 was bewildered and wondered wdiat it meant, but there 
was a kind, brotherly letter which explained it all. The 
trd had enrolled him as a beneficiary of the Belief Fund 
and he would receive a check regularly. "Not as charity, 
but as delayed pay, in part, for the noble service he had 
rendered the denomination through a long and most useful 
life in the ministry." 

Tie al leaflets, too, in the envelope. He 

cashed the cheek and took the money home to his wife. 
When he showed her the money and read the secretary's 

letter, she fried for joy; and, in fact, they both cried and 
rejoiced together. Then they calculated how often the 



1S8 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

cheeks would come and how much they would receive. Put- 
ting that with what their children sent them and esti- 
mating their simple needs they found that they could live 
without local charity. They realized that they could now 
go among their friends without the humiliation of being 
objects of charity. 

Then they read the leaflets and found that the board 
has a way by which younger preachers may provide a 
regular income for old age through an annuity plan as 
sound as life insurance or a bank. They bowed their heads 
and thanked God for the blessings of that day and prayed 
that He would help the board and make their gracious, 
('bristly work a great SUCC 

The preacher had come to the last mile. lie looked 
down the road with a BOng in his heart He was not for- 
gotten, he would not sulTer and his old wife would never 
be in dire want. 



VII 

HELPING ON THE MOVEMENT 

How Pastors Can Help on the Work. 
William Lunsford. 

Wills, Etc. 



189 



WANTED: A MINISTER'S WIFE 



Wanted, a perfect lady. 

Delicate, gentle, refined, 
With every beauty ol person, 

And . lowment of mind: 

Fitted by early culture 

To move in fashionable life — 
Pleas< it Advertisement: 

"Wanted, a Minister's Wn 

Wanted, ■ thoroughbred worker. 

Who Widl to fa 

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Who cuts the daily 
With econom] 

ibi in the kit 
"Wanted, ■ Minister's Wif< 

A 

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t , " ' 
nieh n bad sppearanee 

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I her life. 

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di! 

"Wanted, a Minister's W : :'■ 

To conduct the "Ladi 
Meeting,' ' 
The Aid's "sewinf -circle" sttend; 
And \% bei rk for 1 1 

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Ber ready assistance to lend, 

■ itute chili 
Where sorrou rife. 

And look up 

"Wanted, a Minister's Wlf( 



With courtesy entertain strangers, 

Traveling agents and such: 
Of this kind o! stray "angels' 
visit 

The Stewards have had far too 
much, 

: a nuisance 

Thai they ho] 

their life 

at to the parson's: 
"Wanted, a Minister's Wif< 

prudence, 
tiding much less, 

• ■ ■•. . r dii - e parish 

By lookii tbby In dn 

Sunday 

ild aid in our laudable strife 
To save • Btv'S money : 

"Wanted, a Minister's Wife!" 

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We • Dg the two. 

old debt and build 

I ly. 

And then do roo know vrhat we'll 
dol 

I'or both Will be SfOrn 0U1 and weary. 

ling new change In their 
life: 

We'll "Wanted — A young 

and with a New 
W:f- 

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190 



vr i 

WHAT PASTORS CAN DO TO ADVANCE THE WORK 
OF THE BELIEF AND ANNUITY BOARD 

William Lunsho&d, Corresponding Secretary 

T^IIE big principle involved in our great plan for minis- 
-*- terial comfort and relief is the principle of coopera- 
tion. The great call of the denomination in the new Con- 
tention Board is the call to line up and move in one direc- 
tion in the accomplishment of a great task. Notice how that 
call has been answered. On the general relief side of our 
work we are now a unity, with the exception of one state. 
State fences have been torn down, and state lines oblit- 
erated. Henceforth the worn-out and retired minister will 
not be thought of as the beneficiary of any particular state, 
but rather as the ward of the denomination; with the 
Southern Convention exercising the beneficent office of 
protector and guardian. 

This thing of cooperating and working together involves 
every phase and method of denominational life and expres- 
sion. The denomination expresses itself first and fore- 
most, I should say, through the man called of God to be 
pastor. 

First — Preach a sermon once a year on the subject of 
Ministerial Relief. 

Who ever heard a sermon on Ministerial Relief? Who 
ever heard from a Southern pastor a distinct plea for the 
retired minister 1 To have shrunk from such a task in the 
past may have been natural and excusable, for until these 
recent days a word fitly spoken by him might have ben 
regarded as an appeal for charity. That day has passed. 
Ministerial relief has been elevated, and is now one of the 

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192 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

great benevolences of the denomination, and there is no 
longer a reason why a minister should not in perfect pro- 
priety speak for this great movement, without compro- 
mising in the least his pride and self-respect. 

.Men in the pulpit who are pleading for schools and 
colleges, for missions and hospitals, for black men and red 
men, yellow men and brown men; ministers whose sympa- 
thies go out to the ends of the earth, why don't you speak 
for yourselves? The income required to meet the needs of 
retired ministers will never be large enough until pastors 
k oat without apology, without hesitation, and without 
fake modesty. Look at the report of general relief boards; 
see how veterans fare, whose term of servi.-e is the same as 
yoii]*s. Put yourself on the list, put your wife on the list. 
Then try to make the mental adjustment of your life and 
hers to conditions of retirement, and see how it will clear 
your throat and how your voice will ring out in behalf of 
your disabled brothers and sisters. You do not hesitate to 
{•had for Africa and China and Korea, and \\)V Belgium 
and Franee and Armenia; why fail to cry aloud to your 
people for your own brothers and sisters who received so 
little for their support lad year? 

Some laymen are puzzled over the silence of the preach- 
ers with regard to this matter, and wonder why lie can 
Speak witli BO much animation with regard to the heathen, 
and in a mere whisper with regard to the retired minister. 

Pastors must come to Belf-assertiTeness, and not be afraid 

to speak out in this, their own cause. 

and — Bet aside one Sunday morning in the year as 
veterans' day in the Sunday school. 

We need a Sunday school day for ministerial relief, not 
only to get money, but to educate our young people with 
regard to this important feature of our work. Subtract 
State, Home and Foreign Mission days from our work in 
the Sunday schools for the past ten years and compute the 
if you can. 



HELPING ON THE MOVEMENT L93 

Ministerial relief is a now thing in the denomination. 

The people are no1 infonned about it. Our boys and girls 

never heard about it. We must teach them. In connection 
With the Sunday School Board, there should he inaugu- 
rated "Veteran's Day" in the Sunday schools. Children 

are a mighty hoel among Southern Baptists. They consti- 
tute an army of millions. The greatness of this host is not 
in its numbers but in its tomorrows, tomorrows which are 
already dawning. The dreams of childhood soon take form 
in deed. Impressions then made endure through all the 
years. AVe must let the children become familiar with this 
great matter. Give them a hand in it. There should be a 
children's day program for the Sunday school. On this 
day the children should be given a part in the service. It 
would be well if the service went on into the preaching 
service. They might, on that day, provide flowers for the 
church. In the Sunday school, by reciting story, or by 
class exercise, the children may become actively interested 
in the cause of the old preacher. On this Sunday, or some 
other, the children should be given the privilege of bring- 
ing an offering for the aged minister. It is the only way 
that we can think of for putting ministerial relief on the 
map, and to give it a place with our other great objects. 
The result of such a campaign cannot be computed in dol- 
lars, though dollars are not the main thing in view. We 
must inform ; we must create sentiment. 

Third — Mention Ministerial Relief in his public prayers 
before his congregation. "Like preacher, like people" is a 
very true adage. The members of his flock will become 
interested in whatever the pastor is interested in, as a thing 
to be fostered by the denomination. If he were not 
interested in Home and Foreign Bfissions, they would not 
be. If he did not espouse in the most whole-hearted man- 
ner the denominational schools and colleges of the state, 
and other state-wide interests, that same thing would be 
absolutely true of his congregation. In all these things the 

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194 VETERANS OF THE CRO>< 

flock will follow the shepherd. The pastor is interested in 
these things and speaks with clarion voice with regard to 
thein, and remembers them in his public prayers; and to 
the extent that he does this, the people become warm- 
hearted, responsive and liberal in their behalf. 

Now, what is true of these things would so become true 
of Ministerial Relief. Let the pastor pray for this object, 
and for the new Convention Board at Dallas, and in a little 
while he will find a new and growing interest in the same 
direction among the people in his flock. 

Fourth — Encourage his laymen to lead in this matter 
in a very special sense. 

We are delighted to see our business men take interest 
and come to the Eronl in our churches, because in this way 
we Ee 1 that finances are going to be pu1 on a business 

: ^. Why would it not be possible to interest tlu 1 layman 

in these old soldiers of the churches, who have foughl their 
last fight, and who ought to be able to spend the remaining 
years in life without coming to actual want I Not long ago, 
a body ot a dozen laymen, belonging to one of the great 
ominations of the country, engaged in a greal move- 
ment Tor the retired minister, L88Ued an address, which 
an appeal to the country in behalf of these men who 
are so fasl growing into the years. We are busy these days 

discussing pensions for school teachers, public servants and 
veteran workers of all kinds. Would not an agitation for 

better-paid pastors and an increase in the incomes of old 
preachers be in Order! Surely, the ministry is not a more 

selfish or remunerative calling than the others. The pas- 
tors, however, do hesitate in taking the lead in the matter 

of this. Certainly the laymen should not. It is up to 
them to do it. 

Fifth — Dse the printed page in stirring up an interest 

among the people. This is oik 4 of the great channels through 

which the denomination functions mightily. 

We must create our own literature for this great object 



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and distribute it ourselves. There is virtually nothing of 
the kind in the country anywhere. There is nothing of 
more importance. Neal Dow declared thai preceding the 
adoption of the constitutional prohibitory amendmenl in 
May, he Bowed the state knee-deep with literature on the 
subject of intemperance. This great work of ours cannot 

be accomplished without the liberal use of printers' ink. 
That is seed from which great harvest ought to grow. 
Erasmus, when in Paris, wrote: "As soon as I get my 
money I shall buy Greek books, then I shall buy some 
clothes." Like the great scholar of the Renaissance, we 
must put immense emphasis on books, leaflets and tracts, 
printed faithfully and fired frequently. It is the age of 
the printer. We can do nothing without him. The printed 
page is to be a chief portion of our campaign and initia- 
tive. Opposition born of ignorance, prejudice and selfish- 
ness may be defeated in this as in no other way. 

The board at present is using some excellent tracts, 
which are being distributed far and wide over the South. 
Some of these were written by the secretary and some by 
the brethren. "The Sacred Call" is one; "Sense and Sen- 
timent for the Annuity Fund" is another; " Helping to 
Help Yourself" is another; "Ministerial Support," bear- 
ing on the subject of recruiting the ministry, the character 
of the ministry, etc., is another. This, however, is a mere 
beginning. Southern Baptists must create a literature 
their own. 

A letter to the Secretary at Dallas will bring all the 
literature needed. When it is received, let the pastor 
circulate it among the people. 

If pastors will cooperate as above outlined in this new 
denominational endeavor, in no great while OUT people will 
come to think of Ministerial Relief as one of the causes to 
be permanent, fostered and maintained along with our 
other benevolences. 



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WHY DON'T YOU SPEAK FOR YOURSELF, JOHN? 

"Still John Alden went on, unheeding the words of Priseilla, 
Urging the suit of his friend, explaining, persuading, expanding. 
But as he wanned and glowed, in his simple and eloquent lan- 
guage, 
Quite forgetful of self, and full of the praise of his rival, 
Archly the maiden smiled, and, with eyes overrunning with 

laughter, 
Said in a tremulous voice. 'Whv don't you speak for yourself, 
Johnf " 



Yc Forgetful Preachers, pleading for schools and 
colleges, for missions and hospitals — for black men and 
y. How men and red men and brown men — ministers whose 
sympathies go out to the ends of the earth — composites of 
John Baptist, John Knox, John Calvin, and John Wesley — 
why don't you speak far yaursei 

The income required tO meet the needs of the retired 

ministers is not large enough. But it will be large enough 

just as sorti as the pastOTi Speak out without apology, with- 
out hesitation, without falsi <ty. 

Look at the reports of your Connectional Relief Board. 
how Veterans fared whose term of service was the same 
as yours. Put yourself on the list; or put your wife on 
the list. Then try to make the mental adjustments of 
your life and hers to the condition of retirement; and I 
how it will clear your throat and how your voice will 

ring out in behalf of your disabled brothers ami sisters. 

You do not hesitate to plead for China and Africa and 

Korea; for Belgium ami Prance and Germany. Why fail 
to cry aloud to your })foj)lc for your own brothers and 
sisters Who received so little for their support last year? 
The laymen are puzzled, however, because preachers 
hoarse from shouting for the heathen can scarcely speak 
above a whisper in behalf of the retired ministers. Pastors 
must come to self-consciousness and self-assertivencss in 
this their own cause* Do a little courting on your own 
account. 



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WILLS 

L HAVE YiOTJ MADE rOUH WILL? 

To ask this may moo b delicate matter; bul to make 8 Will 
does not shorten life, and you alone know to what cause you 

h to leave your property. It is possible to do good per- 
petually by a wise bequest 

If j/ou liavc not made yOUt Will, should you not do so now? 

If j/ou have already made your Will, please read these p 
and then consider whether it is as you wish it to be. 

II. VARIOUS FORMS FOR WILLS 

Assuming that it is your purpose to make a bequest in 
favor of the retired Preachers and the Widows and Orphans of 
deceased Ministers of the Southern Baptist Convention, you 
could use one of the following forms : 

III. FORM OF WILL 

Know all hen by these presents, That I 

i of , 

County of , State of , 

being of sound and disposing mind and memory do make, publish 
and declare this my last Will and Testament as follows : 

First. I will and direct that my funeral expenses and my 
just debts be paid by my executor. 

Second. I give, devise and bequeath to 

(Here describe special bequest of money or persona] properly, 

or if real estate, give the correct description thereof.) 

Third. I give, devise and bequeath to the Relief and 
Annuity Board of the Southern Baptist CONVENTION, a cor- 
poration created and existing under and by virtue of the laws 

of the State of Texas, the sum of 

Dollars ($ ) and the receipt of the treasurer of said 

Board shall be a full and sufficient discharge of my executor for 
the same. 



198 VETERANS OF THE CROXS 

Fourth. I hereby designate and appoint 

executor of this my last will and 

testament and direct that he (she or they) be not required to 
give any bond or security for the performance of the duties of 
such executor. 

Ik witness WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and affix my 

seal this day of , A. D., 19. . . . 

(Sign here) (Seal) 

Signed, sealed, published and declared by 

and as for his (or her) last 

Will and Testament; and we at his (or her) bequest in his (or 
her) presence and in the presence of each other hereby subscribe 

our names as witnesses this dav of , 

A. D. If) 



Conn Uj 
(An addition to or change in a will already made) 

I, of 

being of Bound and disposing mind and memory, do hereby 

ni;ike, publish and declare this Codicil to my last Will and 

Testament which b an date , 

A. D. 10 that is U) say: 

I give, devise and bequeath to the Relief and Annuity 

BOABD 0B Tin: SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION, a corporation 

created and existing under and by virtue of the Laws of the 

Btate of Teza8j for the benefit of the connectional permanent 

fund, the sum of Dollars 

($ ) and the receipts of the treasurer of said hoard 

shall he sufficient discharge to my executor for the payment of 
the same. 

I hereby ratify and confirm my Baid Will except as hereby 
modified and altered. 

I\ witnt.ss WHEBEOF, I hereunto set my hand and affix my 

seal this day of , A. I>. 19. , .'. 

(Sign here) (Seal) 

(Note form \'<>r witnessing to Codicil is the same as that to 
the original Will.) 



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( !odi&l pob Rial Estate 

Paragraph to he inserted in Will or Codicil for Rial Estate 

(Number) T give devise and bequeath to the Relief and 
Annuity Board oi the Southern Baptist Convention, a cor- 
poratioD created and existing under and by virtue of th< L 
of the State of Texas, (he following lands and premises, thai is 
to Bay: (Here insert location and correct legal description) 
p to have and to hold the same with the 

appurtenances thereunto belonging to said BELIEF AND ANNUITY 
BOARD, its successors and assigns forever. 

Codicil for Residuary Estate 

Paragraph to he inserted in Will or Codicil devising all or a part 
of the Residuary Estate 

(Number) I give, devise and bequeath to the Relief and 
Annuity Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, a cor- 
poration created and existing under and by virtue of the Laws of 
the State of Texas, all (or a stated fractional part) of the rest, 
residue and remainder of my estate, real, personal and mixed of 
which I may die seized or possessed or in which I have any 
interest. 
Special Note: 

(a) Let the details of witnessing the Will or Codicil be fol- 
lowed exactly as stated in the above forms. In many states, 
and perhaps in all, if the witnesses are not all present together 
at the time of the execution of the Will by the Testator, the 
Will will not be probated or held to be valid. 

(b) Any of the ,irift clauses of the above form of Will or 
Codicil may be omitted or others inserted. In either case the 
numbers of the clauses would be consecutive. 

(c) Some states require three witnesses. Therefore in all 
states let there be three witnesses if practical. In most states only 
two witnesses are required. 

(d) In some states it may be necessary to have a seal of 
some special form, but generally the word "seal 1 ' written with a 
pen with a scr.»!l around it is sufficient. 



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IV. REASONS FOR MAKING A WILL 

(1) If you do not make a will the court must appoint an 
administrator to settle up your affairs. This person will have 
charge and control of your property for at least one year after 
your death, and may be a stranger or an inexperienced person in 
whom you would Dot confide while in life; or, if a relative or 
friend be appointed he or she will be put to the trouble of giving 
a bond, and in some cases nuiy be wholly unable to obtain the 
bond required by law. 

(2) If you leave no will and have minor children, the 
shares of such minors will have to go to a guardian, who may 
also be I Btranger whom you yourself would not have chosen; 

and, during the minority of your children, the provision for 

them, earned by you through years of care and labor, may be 
endangered 

(3) By making a will, you can select your own executor, and 
nominate, if you like, I guardian tor your minor children. 

(1) By making a will, you can divide your property in a 
way which shall, under all the circu: just and 

equitable, and make gifts to others than your heirs at law. 

(5) Bj making a will, you can make arrar, for 
children and loved 01 

(6) The making of a will is not ■ difficult or troublesome 
matter, nor is it expensive if attended to in a business-like 

manner. 

V. A KOBE EXCELLENT WAY 

It is the Life Annuity Bond way. Let us explain it. A 
life annuity bond is an insurance policy "turned 'round." In 
life insurance you pay an uncertain number of small amounts 
and one large amount is paid at death. 

In a Like Annuity BOND you pay a large amount once, and 
receive a number of small amounts annually, semi-annually, or 
quarterly, until death. 

A person who must have an absolutely sure, fixed income until 
the last day of life, or who desires to make a benevolent distribu- 
tion of his property without litigation, expense of failure will 
buy a Life Annuity Bond. The money is at once carefully and 
safely invested by the General Benevolent Board of the Church 



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or the Annual Con ferenee, and the holder of tho bond reo 

regular) Sxed end assured payment! during life, When tho 
annuitant dies the interest will provide perpetually for veteran 

Preachers and Widows and Orphans. 

Llfl Awtity BONDS pay a. higher rate than the current 
interest because tho claim of a Life Annuity Bond terminates 

with the death of the annuitant, and a conservative and econom- 
ical management of business without commissions or heavy 
expense assures a sufficient income. 

The rate paid to an annuitant of a Life Annuity Bond is 
determined by the age of the annuitant, the older the person the 
higher the rate. No medical examination is necessary. 

Life Annuity Bonds may be purchased for any amount, and 
upon the life of one or more individuals, or for one or more 
beneficiaries by the purchaser. 

Life Annuity Bonds are not experimental. They date back 
to the days of the Roman Empire. The British Government and 
other nations have issued such bonds for more than a century. 

Life Annuity Bonds pay the interest at any interval desired 
by the annuitant— yearly, semi-annually, quarterly or monthly. 

Life Annuity Bonds Are Safe, for back of them in the 
Southern Baptist Convention is the Relief and Annuity Board, 
and back of the board is the denomination, with its habit of 
financial responsibility and intelligent co-operation which has 
made its great boards and business enterprises the admiration of 
the world, and has given to them the very highest commercial 
rating. Back of all these are Invested Sources many times the 
amount of Bond liability, with investments rapidly increasing. 
The same amount holds tine of any other denomination. 

Investments are mainly in loans secured upon real estate. 
The loans and investments are made and approved by experienced 
and successful business men and financiers. 



VI THE PURPOSE OF THE BOARD 

(1) To seek an endowment for the beneficiaries and annui- 
tants of the Relief and Annuity Board of the Southern 
Baptist Convention. 



202 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

VII. HOW ARE MONEYS RAISED? 

(1) Br Gifts from God's People. They love the Old 
Preachers and Love loosens the purse-strings. 

(2) Br the Sale of Life Annuity Bonds which at the 
same time absolutely and perpetually secure the Gift for the 
benefit of the Relief and ANNUITY Board without possible liti- 
gation or loss, and provide a fixed income for life for the donor 
or for a relative, or for some Veteran Preacher or other friend 
ehosen by him. 

(3) By securing wills with bequests in favor of the 
Relief and Annuity Board. 

As to wills, Bishop Warren wrote a few days before his 
death : 

''An army of Methodists is sent over every year to follow 
Him who rides the white horse of vietory on the other side. 

Probably a fourth of these dispose of their property before 
going. Nearly every one of them should remember some phase 
of the cause of God in that final disposition. It adds rest and 
satisfaction to the dying bed of the Testator and thrilling 
emotion of the welcoming 'Well Done? of the Master.* 1 

UNITED STATES OP AMERICA 

Belief and Annuity Board 

of the 

SOUTHERN Baptist Convention 

Annuity Bond 



No $ 

WHEREAS 

(hereinafter called Annuitant of Belief and Annuity Board, in 

the County of and State of , 

has this day made a gifj to the Belief and Annuity Board of 

the Southern Baptist Convention) i corporation organised and 

existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Texas, 
IT. S. A., and located at Dallas, in said State, of the principal 
sum of 



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Dollars [$ ), subject to the terms and conditii 

herein eel forth ; andj 

WHEREAS, said oorporation has accepted said gifts, subject 

to such terms ami conditions; 

Now, THEREFORE, said Bbltbi and Annuity Board, in 

consideration of the promises, and for other good and valuable 

considerations, the receipt whereof by it is hereby acknowledged, 

hereby promises and agrees to pay on demand an annuity of 

Dollars 

(| ) , to be paid to 

in semi-annual instalments of 

Dollars ($ ) each, during' the life of said annuitant, 

commencing on the day of , 

A. D., One Thousand Nine Hundred and 

(if said annuitant is then living), and terminating with the last 
payment preceding the death of said annuitant, and upon the 
death of said annuitant, said gifts shall be and become absolute 
and unconditional, and said Relief and Annuity Board bo 
released from all obligations incurred under this agreement. 

It is understood and agreed that said principal sum shall be 
and remain part of the Permanent Fund of said Relief and 
Annuity Board, the net income from which shall be used toward 
the support and in the interest of Relief and Annuity Board 
of the Southern Baptist Convention. 

This contract is issued upon the application of said annui- 
tant, a copy of which application is made a part hereof, and is 
accepted by said annuitant upon the express conditions: 

(1) That said annuitant at the last anniversity of h.... 
birth, was then not less than years of 

. which if found to be untrue, this contract shall thereupon 
se and be canceled, and said Relief and Annuity Board shall 

have power to make an equitable settlement for payments already 

made thereunder. 

(2) That said Relief and Annuity Board shall be famished 
at every annuity payment with satisfactory evidence that said 
annuitant is living. 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Relief and Annuity Board 
of the Southern Baptist Convention has caused these presents 



204 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

to be signed by its President and attested by its Corresponding 

Secretary and its corporate seal to be affixed hereto this 

day of , A. D. One Thousand 

Nine Hundred and 

RELIEF AND ANNUITY BOARD OF THE 
SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION. 



By 

President, 



Attested : 



Car'y Secretary. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



REMEMBERED BY A STAR 
By Mildred Welch 

THE memorial service was over and the congregation 
streamed out the doors. On the wall, just where the 
light of the great rose window fell full on its scarlet and 
blue and white, hung the great service flag. Yesterday 
the stars strewn on the silken field were all blue. But today 
one was turned to gold for a young soldier fallen at 
Chateau-Thierry. 

In a pew near the front a man still sat. He seemed 
not to see the choir file out, the organist climb down from 
his stool and he lingered as though he yet heard the sweet- 
voiced singing: 

'•The golden evening brightens in the west; 
Soon, soon to faithful warriors cometh rest ; 
Sweet is the calm of Paradise the blest. 
Alleluia." 

One other waited, too. A woman, whose only son 
fought by the side of the lad already fallen, had stayed 
behind to pray for him. And for herself prayer, ''Father, 
if for me, too, the blue must change to gold" — 

Then she had turned and, caught by the look on the 
face of the man so near her, she waited. She knew him 
for the minister of a struggling mission church in the fac- 
tory district of the city. 

A man hardly yet middle-aged, thick graying hair 
above the face of a scholar and a saint, blue eyes that 
looked on far distances, he sat unmindful of any who 
watched. His eyes were on the gold star that seemed to 



206 VETERANS OF THE CROSS 

gather into its heart all the mellowed sunshine of an autumn 
day. An expression of unutterable longing swept over his 
face. Did she dream it or did she hear a cry: "Oh, 
God, that I might have had his chance!" 

As for him, alone with his thoughts, the long-gone years 
came hack. Once again he lived that high hour of his 
boyhood when in a summer's dawn he had stood on a hill- 
lop on his father's farm, had seen the morning come over 
the mountain tops and the beauty of the world unfold. 
And there on the hilltop he had offered to God all he had 
of body, mind and heart 

On the hilltop t lie vision and the dream; in the valley 
the Struggle and the toil. It was the old story of a simple 
Farmer boy with school and college and seminary to work 

his way through. Then his ordination as a minister. 
Thirty years were gone and he knew he had kept bark 
nothing of the perfeel gift he had vowed in that far past 
Bummer's dawn. And now after it all he sat in the silent 
church, broken, spent, defeated, and envied with a pas- 
sionate envy the lad whose Mar shone golden in the gather- 
ing dusk. 

The woman who waited saw his head bend low and 
heard the words: ''To be remembered — by a star." Sud- 
denly, as one who hears again a voice long loved and lost, 
he looked up. Doubt, wonder, then joy unutterable swept 
over him. Quite (dearly, as though repeating words he had 

just heard, ho asked : "And they that turn many to light- 
eOUfineSS shall shine as the stars for ever and ever?" But 
again the shadow fell and he said: "It is not for me, 
Lord, not for me." 

She herself heard nothing, but onee more she saw the 
lifted head, the rapt and listening look. 

Then, as a little child that Learns his lesson, he said: 
"To him that overeonieth will I give the morning star." 
TTis eyes were no longer turned to the service flag, but 
seemed to rest on a Face beloved. A glory not of sunshine 



MISCELLA VEOUS 807 

falling through jeweled windows was in his eyes. u Re 
membered by a star — the Morning Star," he said softly. 
She caught him as he fell. When the doctor and the 

others whom the woman called e;mie, they lifted him gently 

and laid him o)\ the Beat At her low question the doctor 

shook his head. But when they looked at him they smiled. 
For they siw his face as that of one who has asked and to 
whom God has granted his heart's desire. 



TWO WORKMEN: LIKENESS CONTRAST— REASON 

A Likeness 

Preachers and bricklayers both have honorable vocations. 
Preachers and bricklayers botli do constructive work. 
Preachers and bricklayers both earn honest livelihoods. 
Preachers and bricklayers both support families and uphold 
society. 

A Contrast 

tiik preacher the bricklayer 

Receives an average salary Receives $8.00 per day, 

of $600.00. $2,400 per year. 

Requires seven to ten years' Serves a three-year appren- 

preparation. ticeship. 

Buys boob costing from Buys tools costing $40.00. 

$200 to $300 annually. 

,, i • l ,i x Buys working clothes cost- 

Buys working clothes cost- .* ,. or AA * hi- n™ 
t '"aaa 4 d.iAA in £ $25.00 to $40.00. 

ing Erom *.)0.00 to $100. ° 

Makes his home a social cen- Regards nis ll0m0 m Ms 
t er> castle. 

Occupies a movable 1 'tent or Has a fixed home ami may 

cottage." own it. 

U paid irregularly and un- Has an honest lien for his 

certainly. wages. 



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THE PREACHER 

By John- Greexleaf Wiiittier 

So in light and shadow the preacher went, 

God's erring and human instrument; 

And the hearts of the people where he passed 

Swayed as the reeds sway in the blast, 

Under the spell of a voice which took 

In its eompasa the Bow of Siloa's brook,— 

Now the roll of thunder, now the awe 

Of the trumpet heard on the Mount of Law. 

A solemn fear on the listening crowd 
Fell like the shadow of a cloud. 
The sailor reeling from out the ships 
Whose masts stood thick in the river-slips, 
Felt the jest and the curse die 00 his lips. 
Listened the lisherinan rude and hard, 
The calker rough from the builder's yard, 
The man of the market let't his load, 
The teamMcr leaned on his bending load, 
The maiden, and youth beside her, felt 

Their hearts in closer union melt 

Old age sat feebly brushing away 
From his ears the scanty locks of gray; 
And careless boyhood, living the bee 
Ineonseious life of bird and tree, 
Suddenly wakened to a sense 
Of sin and its guilty consequence. 

So the flood of emotion deep and strong 
Troubled the land as it swept along, 
Bat left a result of holier lives. 
Tenderer mothers and worthier wives. 
The husband and father whose children fled 
And sad wife wept when his drunken tread 
Frightened peace from his roof-tree's shade, 
And a rock of offense his hearthstone made, 
In a strength that was not his own, began 




•\i:\i;i.\<; THE END OF LIFE'S J0UBNEY M 



MISCELLANEOUS 

To rise from the brute's to the plane of man. 
old Friends embraced, long held aparl 

By evil Counsel and pride of heart ; 

And penitence mm through misty tears. 

In the bow of hope on its cloud of fear.-, 

The premise of Heaven's eternal years,— 

The peace of God Cor the world's annoy,— 

Beauty for ashes, and oil of joy. 

He who passes the ancient church 
Stops in the shade of its belfry-porch,— 
And feels for one moment the ghosts of trade, 
And fashion, and folly, and pleasure laid, 
By the thought of that life of pure intent, 
That voice of warning yet eloquent, 
Of one on the errands of angels sent. 
And if where he labored the flood of sin 
Like a tide from the harbor-bar sets in, ... . 
Still, as the gem of its civic crown, 
Precious beyond the world's renown, 
I lis memory hallows the ancient town. 



14 



A PASTOR 

Dr. John G. Holland 

Se knows hut Jesus Christ , the crucified. 
Ah, little reeks the worldling of the worth 
Of such a man as this upon the earth! 
Who gives himself— his all — to make men wise 
In doctrines which his life exempli!: 

The years pass on, and a great multitude 

Still find in him a character whose light 

Shines round him like a candle in the night ; 
And recognize a pres benign. 

That to the godless even it seems divine. 



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He bears his people's love within his heart. 
And envies no man, whateo'er his part. 
His church record grows and prows again, 
With names of saintly women-folks and men. 
And many a worldling, many a wayward youth, 
He counts among the trophies of his truth. 

happy man ! There is no man like thee, 

Worn out in service of humanity. 

And dead at last, 'mid universal tears, 

Thy name a fragrance in the speaker's breath. 

And thy divine example life in death. 



